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Growing concerns over cybersecurity have pushed countries of the GCC into making it a top priority alongside defense, water, and energy security.
At the recently concluded Summit in Camp David, the US and GCC states agreed to enhance their cybersecurity cooperation, elevating the issue to the same level as counter-terrorism, maritime security, and ballistic missile defense.
With the increasing digitization of Gulf societies and the massive amounts of personal and sensitive information circling the globe every nanosecond, it is all too clear that strong cybersecurity is vital to keeping government, private sector, employer, and citizen information safe from malicious hacking, to state-sponsored cyber economic espionage and worse.
The need for cyber talent in the GCC states has never been more urgent, but the reality is that cyber talent is in high demand, difficult to find, and even more difficult to attract. To effectively build a cyber-workforce of the future, new approaches and technologies are needed to streamline critical aspects of recruiting, hiring, workforce planning, and training. Cybersecurity needs to be recognized as a career path in its own right.
To help bridge this talent gap, Raytheon and the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington are bringing together governments, educators and employers to work to inspire the cybersecurity talent of tomorrow.
