http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=97747 The Peninsula 28/06/2005 Doha: Specialised workshop on cyber security awareness was held here yesterday by Qatar's Supreme Council for Information and Communications Technology (ictQatar) in collaboration with the Qatar Computer Emergency Response Team (Q-Cert). The importance of establishing an emergency response team to deal with cyber threats came up for discussion at the event. The workshop was third in a series of four that ictQatar and Q-Cert will hold. The workshops were held to offer a detailed overview of the various threats faced by computer networks and to gain inputs from experts in the fields in Qatar. They were conducted in cooperation with the CERT Coordination Centre, a division of the Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie-Mellon University. The CERT-CC has responded to some 400,000 cyber security incidents worldwide that had affected hundreds of thousands of Internet websites. It had reported some 12,000 vulnerabilities and issued hundreds of security advisories and bulletins. It had helped the creation of some 200 such similar forums worldwide. The Q-Cert, it was learnt would be a pioneering organization of its kind in the GCC region. The workshop was conducted by Richard D Pethia, director of SEI's Networked Systems Survivability Program and team leader of Q-Cert. Pethia pointed out how computer networks were at an increased risk due to an increase in the number of hackers. Hamad Al Mannai, director of projects at ictQatar, also spoke at the workshop. _________________________________________ Attend the Black Hat Briefings and Training, Las Vegas July 23-28 - 2,000+ international security experts, 10 tracks, no vendor pitches. www.blackhat.com
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