With a goal of preventing cyber-attacks and creating a safe environment, Qatar has been at the forefront of such efforts.

Qatar's Government Communications Office (GCO), further emphasized these efforts through its Qatari platform ‘Warning’ which employs advanced technology to detect cyber security threats to infrastructure systems.

According to the GCO, the platform was created as part of Qatar's efforts to prevent the spread of cyber-attacks. This platform demonstrates the future of cyber-security as it uses AI technologies, identifies and blocks phishing domains, detects malware software, and identifies malicious enterprise network traffic.

The platform 'Warning' is user-friendly and develops high-quality intelligence about existing and novel cyber-security threats. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the system detects phishing domains as soon as possible. An attacker's main method of distributing malicious content is through phishing domains in order to steal credentials, data, and assets from users.

'Warning' is also capable of detecting malware, which attackers use to compromise user accounts and take over their systems, and is also capable of detecting malicious enterprise network traffic. The technology allows for accurate detection of insider attacks by identifying normal versus abnormal traffic patterns.

The Qatari platform “Warning” uses advanced technology to detect cyber security threats to infrastructure systems and corporations. The platform was created as part of the State of #Qatar's efforts to prevent the spread of cyber-attacks. pic.twitter.com/8OBqjGZOEo

— مكتب الاتصال الحكومي (@GCOQatar) July 18, 2022

As reported earlier this year, scientists at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), in partnership with Qatari stakeholders and Turkish partners, developed a cybersecurity platform named 'Warning' to predict and detect security threats against enterprises and critical infrastructure.

This platform is the result of a three-year partnership between QCRI, Qatar’s Ministry of Interior, the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, and Turkey’s TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Kadir Has University, and Interprobe, a cyber intelligence and cyber defense company.

Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), jointly funded the project with a grant of $1.65 million.

Assistant Professor Abdullatif Shikfa at the University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST), told The Peninsula that cyber-security awareness and skill enhancement should be more prominently focused on by policymakers in the region.

“Qatar is taking cyber-security very seriously and has put cyber-security and privacy at the top of the FIFA World Cup 2022 event agenda by developing a cyber-security framework,” he said.

Qatar developed a National Cyber Security Strategy in 2013 and established the Qatar Computer Emergency Response Team in 2006, he added.

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Source: The Peninsula