A citizen who established an awareness platform on “cyber security”

Muhammad Al Shamsi: Electronic extortion is the biggest danger facing our youth

Al Shamsi is a lecturer in courses to expand community awareness and spread a culture of information security.

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Thanks to his academic specialization and knowledge experience, Emirati Mohammed Al Shamsi was able to activate a distinguished experience, which was first established through his cumulative professional experiences, leading to his pioneering awareness platform “Cybernet.IE” that speaks Arabic and specialized in the field of information security and cyber security, which Al Shamsi worked to establish and launch with individual efforts and diligence A pure personality, to become one of the most important specialized digital platforms that provide technical awareness contents to the community, and special consultations for new students in several technical fields, through the portal of many courses and workshops that the platform opened to the public at various levels, to spread this modern societal culture on a large scale in UAE.

The first platform in Arabic

At first, Al Shamsi stopped at his academic studies, specializing in information security and criminal systems from the Higher Colleges of Technology in Sharjah. And how to protect accounts through social media,” noting that “starting from 2019 and almost a year after my graduation, I started providing a number of awareness courses, either free of charge or at nominal prices, given my great knowledge of the reality of digital penetrations prevalent among adolescents and young people. Those who use social media on a large scale today, and do not find a practical and effective way to know the proper steps to protect their accounts,” stressing that the activity of his cybernet platform.ae is not limited to the training of high school youth, but also reaches students of specialized universities and old graduates who wish to update and renew their technical knowledge in this field.

training step

Al Shamsi points to his great experience in the field, which he refined through the accumulation of knowledge and training courses he attended over the past two years, in cooperation with major global technology companies, such as Microsoft and Dell.

This is in addition to the approved technical certificates obtained by Al Shamsi from the largest institutes of technology in the United States, the Wide View Institute, and Harvard University, which ended with his accreditation as a registered trainer on the list of young content makers by the Federal Youth Foundation in the field of cyber and information security. .

On how to design specialized courses to suit the needs of each category separately, Al Shamsi stressed that he seeks to keep pace with the requirements of the students of each training course according to the intended categories, which raised the turnout for them to exceed the number of views of the free courses that he published on his digital platform or through social media to Today, to over 600 daily views.

This is in addition to a group of various attendance courses that brought together large groups of young people on video applications, which Al Shamsi was excited about, commenting: “I hope to reach the largest possible segment of the public, to expand community awareness and spread technical culture and information security culture in particular, This is after I felt the serious desire of everyone to learn the ABCs of digital protection, which does not require efforts and in-depth knowledge in the field, as much as it depends on simple steps available today to all users of smart phones and social media.”

risk

Based on his in-depth experience in the field, the founder of the "Cybernet" platform pointed to "Emirates Today" to "the real dangers that threaten our youth today in social spaces and virtual worlds," adding, "The most problems facing our youth today are related to electronic extortion, which is witnessing a steady increase. , to threaten the safety of people and their personal lives, and sometimes their psychological balance, to turn into a real war, waged by many in secret, and some young people and adolescents between the ages of (12 and 17) fall victim, which motivates us constantly to support a culture of awareness in the process of using smart phones, and to develop a culture The security of their information, because it is no longer a luxury, but an urgent necessity every day.”

 Pay for Arabic content

Muhammad Khaled Al Shamsi indicated the availability of the contents of his specialized digital platform on the official website of the platform “Cybernet.IE”, and on the photo site “Instagram” and “Tik Tok”, in Arabic, indicating his firm belief in the value of presenting it in the Arabic language, to be formed in light of the availability of The same information in English and other foreign languages, a strong impetus for specialized Arabic content on the digital space, concluding his ambitious endeavors in the same field, with the dream of establishing a specialized Arab academy that would compete on a global scale.

message to parents

Al Shamsi sent a message to parents urging them to monitor their children on digital spaces and to be more aware of the digital risks facing them. And activating the parental control feature, which is a free feature provided by all digital platforms to protect children from the dangers of blackmail in all its forms.

“Electronic extortion is a real war, waged by many in secret, and some young people and adolescents fall victim to it.”

“Developing a culture of information security is no longer a luxury, but an urgent necessity every day.” 

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