UOB Employees Learn About Electronic Risks and How to Deal with Them

UOB Employees
Learn About Electronic Risks and How to Deal with Them

 

The employees of the University of Bahrain (UOB) learned
about the most significant electronic risks and how to deal with them during a
workshop entitled “Technical Information Security”, which was organized by
the Information Technology Center at UOB on Wednesday (19 February 2020) at the
campus of Sakhir, in cooperation with the Administrative Training Office at the
University and the Information and E-Government Authority.

The workshop was held for two consecutive days and in which
about 120 administrators participated and discussed issues such as information
security, types of electronic risks and how to deal with them, in addition to
laws and regulations related to information security in the government sector.

Computer security official at the Information and E-Government
Authority, Yousif Khaled Al-Maloud, stated: “Today, cyber-attacks have
become more dangerous than ever and have introduced a new kind of wars known as
electronic (cyber) wars, which may not require many weapons, but their
destructive effects are enormous.”

Also, he pointed out that hacking attempts can be caused by
various motives such as blackmail, political goals, or destructive motives,
which threat level can be determined by the type of hacking and the number of
attempts, stressing that the awareness of employees would lead to the failure of
90% of electronic hacking attempts.

Moreover, Al-Maloud indicated that “the Information and
E-Government Authority gives utmost importance to spreading awareness on the
dangers of electronic threats and their preventions” noting that “the
Authority has undertaken several initiatives to raise awareness of information
security, one of which is “Trust “program, which has benefited more
than four thousand government employees since its launch in 2016.”

Furthermore, Al-Maloud pointed out that information security
is determined through setting policies and procedures, creating modern
technologies, and raising awareness of the importance and methods of dealing
with electronic threats, noting the elements of information security include confidentiality,
integrity, and availability that is done through backup.

During his speech, the computer security administrator discussed
types of risks, such as viruses, electronic worms, hacking methods by
backdoors, trojans, spyware, adware, keyboard viruses, and hacking through the
information available on social media.

Also, he talked about important measures to protect
information security, and concluded his speech by reviewing regulations related
to information technology crimes, such as illegal entry, data destruction, data
interception, threats and extortion, forgery, and fraud, in addition to noting
crimes related to the protection of the State’s information and documents.