Doha, May 31 (QNA) - HE Prime Minister and Minster of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani inaugurated today the first phase of the electronic security shield project at the headquarters of the National Command Center.
  The inauguration was attended by Their Excellencies ministers, officials and directors of Interior Ministry's departments.
  The project seeks to increase the level of electronic security in Qatar and enhance IT infrastructure and electronic network protection.
The project's electronic security operation room will focus on a set of goals to assist Qatar's institutions and bodies and protect its IT infrastructure against electronic security threats, as well as cooperate with authorities concerned to enact security policies and provide training and consultancy relating to electronic security.
The security operation room will also provide advanced levels of protection to other security operations centers in the country. It will undertake many tasks including surveillance of IT infrastructure in different government agencies and institutions to detect and analyze cyber threats as well as respond to cyber incidents and enhance access to cybersecurity status quo in the country, in addition to building expertise and specialized Qatari personnel in electronic security field and cooperating with international partners in order to exchange information on cyber threats and respond to incidents that require coordination at the international level, among other tasks. (QNA)