As Dubai focuses on future, cybersecurity a growing concern
A Dubai official says as the city races toward a future of self-driving cars and drones filling up its skies, cybersecurity is becoming a growing concern.
Amer Sharaf, the director of compliance at the Dubai Electronic Security Center, gave a rare interview on Wednesday outlining the goals of his still-nascent agency in protecting the sheikhdom.
Sharaf says Dubai's government has faced email phishing scams and other small-scale incidents affecting its networks.
He said it's on high alert following Saudi Arabia being hit by Shamoon 2 , a new variant of a computer virus that destroyed systems of the kingdom's state-run oil company in 2012. The emirate was not infected by it.
Sharaf spoke to journalists after giving an address at OPCDE, a cybersecurity conference being held in Dubai this week.
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