{"id":18000,"date":"2024-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/18000\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:43:49","slug":"oman-hosts-regional-cybersecurity-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/18000\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman hosts regional cybersecurity conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muscat hosted the 12th Regional Cybersecurity Exercise<\/a> for Arab states, members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation<\/a>\u00a0and participants from Asia, the Pacific and Africa.<\/p>\n

The event is organised by the Regional Cybersecurity Centre<\/a>, hosted by Oman and represented by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology<\/a> as part of Regional Cybersecurity Week.<\/p>\n

\"Oman<\/p>\n

More than 600 representatives of national emergency response teams from participating countries and national cybersecurity centres from Arab and Islamic states took part.<\/p>\n

Activities and proposed scenarios focused on building the capacities of response teams and strengthening communication between them to ensure an effective response to rising cyber threats.<\/p>\n

The event also targeted information security centres in key sectors to safeguard data and digital services from virtual attacks.<\/p>\n

\"Oman<\/p>\n

Khalid Al Rawahi, Director of Risk and Cyber Incident Management at the National Centre for Information Security<\/a>, said the cybersecurity exercise is an essential part of ongoing efforts to protect systems and information from escalating digital threats.<\/p>\n

He said the exercise helps improve the skills and abilities of teams in countering cyberattacks, reinforcing the security of digital infrastructure and enhancing its readiness to face future challenges as a foundational step in safeguarding digital systems and supporting the stability of the digital economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s exercise is themed, “The Impact of Cyber Threats on the Digital Economy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-trade-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33972,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000\/revisions\/33972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}