Lodié: National Cybersecurity Week in Rabat until 14 October

The Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister in charge of the National Defense Administration, Abdellatif Loudié, inaugurated on Monday in Rabat the activities of the "National Cybersecurity Week", organized by the Directorate General of Information Systems Security (DGSSI) until October 14 under the slogan "Cybersecurity in the Service of Digital Transformation and Development", with the participation of officials and professionals from the public and private sectors. Four Priorities for Countering Digital Threats In his opening speech, Lodié emphasized that cyber-attacks have become a real threat and shared rather than hypothetical, and that AI is contributing to the intensification of these threats. He called for building a national vision based on a national strategy, a legal and regulatory framework, competency development, sensitization, strengthening incident detection and response capabilities, as well as regional and international cooperation. The government official identified four priorities for the Directorate's work: capacity building, supporting national companies involved in cybersecurity, protecting critical infrastructures, and addressing challenges associated with artificial intelligence. The Directorate has mainstreamed Security Operations Centers (SOC) and strengthened audit and monitoring mechanisms, along with the formation of information security officers. Operators Discuss Cloud Computing Guarantees The week's events were dedicated to a workshop titled “Digital Transformation via Cloud Computing: Any Guarantees of a Reliable and Secure Transformation?”, which addressed governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, hybrid and multi-vendor systems. Noha Mashkour, director of information and communication technology at Orange Morocco, said that the decision to move to computing The cloud must start from the value it adds to the activity, based on three criteria: commercial value, the sensitivity of data and applications, control of the location of data and the parties able to access it, recalling the requirements of Law 09-08 on the protection of personal data and the importance of developing a clear exit plan before any migration to the cloud. For his part, Mahdi Benomar, responsible for information security at Maroc Telecom Group, explained that operators combine being users and providers of cloud services at the same time One, and that the group's approach is based on three elements: rules, roles and monitoring policies, with the need to define a clear matrix of responsibilities between the provider, the customer and the regulator. Why this matters for Moroccans With Moroccan administrations and companies increasingly relying on digital and cloud services to manage citizens' data and daily transactions, these discussions largely determine the level of protection of personal data and critical infrastructure in the country in the coming years, at a time when attacks are escalating globally due to the spread of artificial intelligence tools.