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Threat monitoring system. The system is an in-house tool that aggregates and
analyses threat intelligence information from a number of sources in order to detect
and mitigate the impact of infected computers or local websites.
Malware analysis lab
The objective of the lab is to build the capability to measure, analyse and
provide protection from malware threats on a national level. Currently, the lab
produces a detailed report on the behaviour of the malware on infected machines;
types of targeted system; the sources of malware based in the country; and any
Internet connection with the command and control server. It also helps to measure
the weight of every collected malware, in order to evaluate the risk associated with
specific malware threats by volume of the malware, and to provide detection of
malware through all anti-virus engines existing in the market.
Public incident handling
The Qatar Computer Emergency Response Team aims to minimize the number
of infected machines in the State of Qatar by providing essential support to the
public and to the critical sector. In order to achieve this goal and provide the right
guidance, Qatar has expanded its incident response service to cover home
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Internet users via the public incident
handling portal. It provides various steps, guidelines and basic software tools to
scan and remove infections from home ADSL machines.
Cybersecurity training
The Qatar Computer Emergency Response Team conducts cybersecurity-related
training and workshops for information technology professionals from Government
organizations and other Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
Cybersecurity awareness
The Qatar Computer Emergency Response Team builds a foundation of human
knowledge about cybersecurity issues and best practices, focusing on corporate
employees.
It works to protect critical infrastructure, in view of the fact that a number of
industry sectors such as finance, energy and information and communications
technology, are critical to sustaining Qatar’s economy, its population and its
Government. As a result, it aims to protect the information systems that underpin
these critical sectors as follows:
• Developing national protection strategies, best practices frameworks and tools,
raising awareness with stakeholders.
• Directly assisting owners and operators of critical infrastructures in improving
supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) network safeguards.
• Understanding industry sector issues and cross-sector dependencies and
implementing sector-specific protection strategies.
• Working with international information infrastructure protection organizations
for determining transnational solutions.
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