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GAC wraps up workshop on cyber security

Published: 22 Feb 2020 - 10:24 am | Last Updated: 16 Nov 2021 - 01:01 am

QNA

Doha: The five-day regional training workshop organised by the General Authority of Customs (GAC), under the theme of “Cybersecurity, digital forensic analyzes and combating cybercrime” concluded on Thursday.

The Director of the Customs Training Center, Mubarak Ibrahim Al Buainain, said that the workshop comes within a regional plan approved by the authority in coordination with the World Customs Organization, indicating that these workshops benefit GAC’s employees and the agencies operating in the state as well as many countries of the region.

Al Buainain explained that the subject of this workshop came at the right time due to the challenges posed by cybersecurity and the issues related to it, adding technology is a double-edged sword and there are people with bad intentions who use them in electronic crimes.