Cyber Crime in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: The Threat Today and the Expected Future

Abstract

The world we are in today is all about Information Technology (IT) because we are in the age of  Information Technology and  the people with the right information, with proper way of disseminate this information and processing them is considered as the most successful. Computers have become the mainstay of business and government processes. Business has been using them for years and in  most  countries, there are drives towards electronic or joined up government. This is to allow the people to access government services from their desktop in their own home . A rapid growth of computer crimes and formation of laws in different countries addresses the severity of problem. This paper discusses the stand of Saudi Arabian government against cyber crime and its IT act. It analyzes the  cybercrime in the Kingdom  and the anti-cyber crime law.

Keywords: Cyber Crime, Anti-Cyber crime law, Cyber Terrorism