{"id":42680,"date":"2019-10-23T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T10:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=42680"},"modified":"2019-10-30T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T08:55:07","slug":"omani-investors-urged-to-prioritise-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2019\/10\/23\/omani-investors-urged-to-prioritise-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Omani investors urged to prioritise cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ministry of Technology and Communications in Oman has\norganised a cybersecurity workshop for investors at the ministry\nheadquarters.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop, targeting public and private investment organisations,\naims to spread awareness on the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) report on <em>Incentivizing\nResponsible and Secure Innovation<\/em>, and to incentivise investors on prioritising\ncybersecurity risks on their investment portfolios. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will help them ensure the security of their investments\nand maximise the return on them because cybersecurity attacks have been proven to\ncause huge financial losses on well-established organisations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the workshop, Eng.\nBadar Ali Al Salehi, the Director General of Oman National CERT at the Ministry\nof Technology and Communications, and the head of the ITU-Arab Regional\ncybersecurity centre, gave a presentation on global and national trends in\ncybersecurity and gave an overview for the country. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also took the participants through the WEF report and the\nbasic principles of cybersecurity that investors can incorporate throughout\ntheir investment journey.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eng. Al Salehi also presented the <em>Cybersecurity Due\nDiligence Framework<\/em>, and the assessment methodology by the WEF guiding\ninvestors to assess cybersecurity during the investment journey. Members of\ninvestment agencies in the private and public sectors attended the workshop.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Technology and Communications in Oman has organised a cybersecurity workshop for investors at the ministry headquarters.&nbsp; The workshop, targeting public and private investment organisations, aims to spread awareness on the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) report on Incentivizing Responsible and Secure Innovation, and to incentivise investors on prioritising cybersecurity risks on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":42681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493,809,3629,432,78,79],"tags":[10511,1530,10510,431,7542,506],"class_list":["post-42680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-more-news","category-newsletter","category-oman","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-used","tag-badar-ali-al-salehi","tag-cybersecurity","tag-ministry-of-technology-and-communications","tag-oman","tag-wef","tag-world-economic-forum"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42684,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42680\/revisions\/42684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}