ITA holds seminar on cybersecurity threats to infrastructure sector

Times News Service

MUSCAT: The Information Technology Authority (ITA) held a seminar on Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) Cybersecurity for the CNI CEOs in the Sultanate.

The seminar was held under the patronage of Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

With the attendance of around 70 CEOs from different critical infrastructure organisations in Oman, the most recent cyber security threats and challenges to the CNI Organisations, as well as the measures, precautions and actions needed to deal with cyber risks and security gaps concerning Oman’s critical infrastructure sector from a senior executivelevel perspective were addressed at the seminar.

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The Director General of Oman National CERT, Eng. Bader bin Ali Al Salehi, highlighted the impacts of cyber threats on governments and shed light on the Sultanate’s efforts in this regard, saying, “Today’s seminar aligns with the efforts Oman is taking to address the uprising issues of cyber threats and their significant impacts on the economy where global leaders and businesses are recognising cyber security as a prerequisite to further explore new opportunities.”

“On a national level, and in the past few years, we responded to more than 824 incidents targeting the government and CNI sector where intrusion attempts, vulnerabilities, malicious code, malware infection, web phishing were the top incidents targeting CNI organisations,” Al Salehi added.