Overview

The National Cybersecurity Center, through the National Cyber Drill, seeks to test cyber readiness and enhance local expertise and skills in cybersecurity. The program invites all specialists in the field who represent sectors of the Kingdom of Bahrain institutions to periodically attend the exercise, with the aim of ensuring that the exercise keeps pace with developments in cybersecurity risks.

These exercises measure the ability of organizations to identify, detect and respond to security incidents, by simulating hypothetical cyber-attacks that reflect some potential attacks that may affect the integrity of the cyber system in these organizations. The exercise also reviews security risks and current threats and provides the best ways to confront them and train attendees to monitor and neutralize their impact.

These exercises deal with different types of attacks and put forward the mechanisms necessary to respond to emergency cyber incidents, or what is called the Incident Response lifecycle: monitoring, analysis, containment, removal, and then recovery, and lessons learned from the incident - according to the best approved international standards and practices. This is to contribute to enhancing the protection of infrastructure and networks in the participating institutions, which in turn contributes to raising the level of cybersecurity in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

The National Cybersecurity Center is the competent authority for cybersecurity in the Kingdom of Bahrain, as the center works on formulating a comprehensive strategy for cyberspace and setting effective governance standards to implement it as a means of defense and monitoring against electronic attacks and intrusions, as well as spreading awareness among individuals and institutions within the framework of achieving the Economic Vision 2030 and contributing to promote the goals of sustainable development.