UAE to launch National Cybersecurity Strategy

Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head of the UAE Cyber Security Council (CSC), announced that the National Cybersecurity Strategy volition beryllium officially launched this week.

This inaugural comes arsenic portion of the UAE’s efforts to support gait with large and accelerated transformations crossed assorted sectors, peculiarly successful precocious technology, further cementing the country’s presumption successful artificial quality and the integer economy.

Speaking to the Emirates News Agency (WAM) connected the sidelines of the archetypal time of the World Government Summit (WGS) 2025 successful Dubai, Dr. Al Kuwaiti stated that the precocious approved five-year National Cybersecurity Strategy, endorsed by the UAE Cabinet, is built astir 5 cardinal pillars. These pillars are designed to alteration the harmless and accelerated adoption of innovations portion ensuring a secure, resilient, and robust integer environment.

He further highlighted that the strategy includes circumstantial goals and initiatives aimed astatine strengthening and increasing the nationalist economy, successful summation to protecting captious infrastructure.

He noted that planetary losses from cyberattacks, cyber warfare, and cyberterrorism were estimated astatine astir $10 trillion successful 2024, underscoring the UAE’s aboriginal designation of the request to heighten its cybersecurity model successful enactment with planetary champion practices. To this end, the UAE has invested implicit $2 cardinal successful cybersecurity and integer transformation.

Al Kuwaiti besides revealed that the Cybersecurity Council is presently finalising respective policies, including a cryptography policy, which volition beryllium implemented successful the archetypal 4th of 2025. Additionally, the assembly is moving connected caller cybersecurity standards to heighten organization compliance and information measures.

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