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Cross-border Cooperation: A Game-Changer for Gulf Cybersecurity

Posted: January 29th, 2017

By Wajdi Al Quliti

Wajdi Homaid Al Quliti is Director of Information Technology at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. He was previously Senior IT and Security Consultant at the Saudi Embassy in Washington from 2004 to 2010, and Computer and Telecommunications Security Supervisor at the Ministry of Defense and Aviation of Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 2004.

Recent years have witnessed a series of increasingly audacious and unprecedented cyber attacks, leading up to the recent accusations of Russian hacking throughout last year’s U.S. presidential election season.

In the Middle East, the Gulf region has also experienced its fair share of the threat from cyberspace. In fact, proportional to its population and attack surface, the Gulf faces more cyber attacks than any other region in the world.

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