Ministry of Defence officials attending the course.
Experts from Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s College of Science and Engineering hosted representatives from the Ministry of Defence for a course that highlighted cyber security threats, ways to guard against them, and what to do when a cyber attack takes place.
Ten staff members from the Ministry of Defence took part in the five-day executive education course, which covered such topics as Applied Cryptography, Network Security (Malware, Distributed Denial of Service attacks, Intrusion Detection Systems), and Wireless Security – with extensive hands-on sessions covering the dreadful vulnerabilities that current wireless networks are exposed to, and possible remedies.
Following the conclusion of the course, Dr Mounir Hamdi, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at HBKU, said: “The executive education course on cyber security to the Ministry of Defence is an illustration of the importance of cyber security in Qatar as well as an illustration of the kind of collaboration that the College of Science and Engineering at HBKU wants to establish with Qatari Ministries, industry, and society so as to contribute to QNV 2030.”
Speaking at the MoU signing ceremony, Dr Khaled B Letaief, Provost of HBKU, said: “It is an essential part of the mission of our university to drive collaboration that enhances Qatar’s human capacity through dialogue and research.
