IT support in NEOM

IT at NEOM is project IT, and it behaves differently from anything in an established city. Estates are built for a phase of work rather than for a permanent office: a site cabin becomes a project office, headcount doubles for a period and then moves, and the network holding it together was installed quickly by people whose main job was something else. What that demands is not sophistication but discipline — knowing what devices exist, keeping them patched, monitoring the links that connect a site to a head office hundreds of kilometres away, and being able to stand a new location up without starting from scratch each time. Computer support covers the machines, network support covers the connection, and backup protects the drawings, records and correspondence that a construction programme genuinely cannot lose. Cybersecurity is priced component by component, which suits projects where contractor access is the real exposure. Every area is published separately, so a project office can be priced in about three minutes and the same figures apply when the next one opens.