Comment: Awareness of cybersecurity key to maintaining privacy – Gulf Digital News

Comment: Awareness of cybersecurity key to maintaining privacy – Gulf Digital News

CYBERSECURITY has become the mainstay of national security and is as important as other branches of security such as economic and food security.

The first cybersecurity conference and exhibition recently hosted by Bahrain came at the right time. This vital topic is of growing importance, especially considering the high-level participation of distinguished companies, speakers, and experts from around the world.

I don’t claim to be familiar with all aspects of cybersecurity but this term, which has started to circulate a lot over the past few years, has made me pay attention to it, read about it, and discover that every one of us is concerned with it.

Anyone who connects to the Internet through a mobile phone or computer is vulnerable to hacking, tracking, theft of data, information and money or extortion, at the level of individuals, institutions, companies, and organisations.

Cyberspace has developed into a furious theatre of conflict between nations. Indeed, what we observe in the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine may not be as heated as the two nations’ cyber war.

This new war between the two countries aim to sabotage defence systems, follow the movements of military units, and sabotage electricity, water, sewage, and anything connected to the Internet.

The Cold War