Reading in the book "Cybersecurity .. risks .. challenges .. confrontation"

Al Jazeera Net

Published recently by Dar Al-Sharq for printing, publishing and distribution book "Cyber ​​Security .. Risks .. Challenges .. Confrontation" by the Qatari researcher Zainab Haidari, came in 460 pages of large pieces.

This book is one of the few references in its field in the Arab Library, both in terms of its content or the way it is presented to the issues of cybersecurity and risks, and will benefit lovers and intellectuals, as well as university students and researchers in this area.

The importance of the book is that e-piracy has become "a ghost threatening the world and a security concern that challenges the establishment of e-government, which requires securing data and information, to instill confidence and security in the transactions in the open digital environment in which we live today, which is the information of the most important pillars and components."

Cyber ​​or cyber attacks have become a threat to the security of States, and are therefore receiving increasing attention on the international security agenda, in an effort to counter the escalation of cyber threats and their role in influencing the peaceful nature of cyberspace.

The book consists of five chapters, the first three of which review the history of hacking and piracy and the development of cybercrime, the importance of cybersecurity, technical and legal risks, the objectives and dimensions of cybersecurity, the strategy to cyber threats, as well as the management of information security and cyberthreats.

Cybersecurity, according to the book, is "an activity that protects the human and financial resources associated with ICTs, ensures the potential to reduce losses and damages in the event of risks and threats, and allows the situation to be restored as quickly as possible, so that the wheel does not stop." Production, so that the damage does not turn into permanent losses. "

As noted, the writer's method is characterized by direct and clear information reaches the reader easily and inexpensively, and provide him with rich information and a valuable meal is the conclusion of a great effort in the collection of information and the way to deal with and put forward in an easy and smooth manner.

Examples of these topics are under the title of "the largest operations", where the writer reviews the major cybercrime that rocked countries and giants, and the topic of "piracy of media institutions," which talks about the most famous piracy operations against major media organizations, especially the Qatar News Agency. And Al Jazeera website.

However, the importance of the book is highlighted in Chapter 4, which deals with the Qatari experience in enhancing cybersecurity, meeting the challenges of cyber attacks, in addition to reviewing the most important legislative and technical strategies, the policy of securing cloud computing, and the policy of securing national information. The official broadcast of false news and attributed to the Emir of Qatar.

Chapter 3 of this section goes on to talk about the "penetration of the Qatar News Agency," which was, as the author described, "an earthquake in the heart of the Gulf", where the process of penetration from the beginning, and how it was planned and how to implement, and then the mechanisms used to discover Penetration and collection of evidence condemning the hackers, all in a documented factual narrative that provides the facts to the reader as they are.

In later chapters, the author talks about the policy of securing cloud computing, the policy of securing national information, and the national strategy for cybersecurity, and provides the reader with a guide to combat cybercrime, before concluding the book with the fifth section entitled "Arab Convention for the Protection of Cyberspace", which details the draft agreement. The Arab Cyberspace Protection Committee comprises 68 articles.

It is noteworthy that the researcher decorated Al-Haidari other distinctive books, such as the book "Qatari women .. Resilience and achievements in the face of the siege .. A documentary study," this book is the first study of its kind in documenting the achievements made by Qatari women since the start of the siege on Qatar, and monitor the march Enable it in various fields.