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Qatar’s National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA) is testing the security postures of some 170 key organizations with a series of cyber drills.<\/p>\n

The tests allow executives and decision makers from Qatar\u2019s largest organizations to exercise their cybersecurity processes, national collaboration, and resilience plans. A Qatari News Agency<\/a> report said the drills are aimed at determining cyber weaknesses, assessing cyber readiness, and measuring the ability to address attacks and threats.<\/p>\n

Participants for this year were not named, but the Ministry of Transport<\/a> and Qatari Steel<\/a> both previously have taken part in the cyber exercises. The drills enabled Qatari Steel to test co-ordination, expertise, and response against a potential cyberattack in “a safe environment to verify, test and improve our skills, processes, and technologies,” the organization said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The drills are a part of the Qatari National Cyber Security Strategy<\/a>, where one objective is for organizations to “respond to, resolve, and recover from cyber incidents and attacks through timely information sharing, collaboration, and action.”<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity exercises and drills are among Qatar’s requirements to meet that objective. The first series of drills<\/a> took place in 2015, when 35 organizations from critical sectors, including finance, telecommunications, energy, government, transportation, aviation, and health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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