{"id":17369,"date":"2026-05-18T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/dragos-uae-cyber-security-council-launch-ot-cybersecurity-centre-of-excellence-to-strengthen-industrial-resilience-industrial-cyber\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:00:03","slug":"dragos-uae-cyber-security-council-launch-ot-cybersecurity-centre-of-excellence-to-strengthen-industrial-resilience-industrial-cyber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/dragos-uae-cyber-security-council-launch-ot-cybersecurity-centre-of-excellence-to-strengthen-industrial-resilience-industrial-cyber\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragos, UAE Cyber Security Council launch OT cybersecurity Centre of Excellence to strengthen industrial resilience – Industrial Cyber"},"content":{"rendered":"

Industrial cybersecurity vendor Dragos<\/a> announced a public\u2013private partnership with the UAE Cyber Security Council (CSC) to establish OT Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence (CoE) in the UAE, under the nation\u2019s \u2018Make it in Emirates\u2019 Forum, representing a milestone in advancing the UAE\u2019s national cyber resilience and digital sovereignty.
The Centre of Excellence will support the UAE\u2019s ambition to localize advanced cybersecurity capabilities, accelerate homegrown innovation, and build a world-class cyber workforce, positioning the country as a regional and global hub for cybersecurity excellence.
This announcement reflects Dragos\u2019s deep commitment to the UAE\u2019s national strategies and its vision of \u201cShared Ownership. Trusted Capability. Sustainable Cyber Value.\u201d
Through the partnership, Dragos will provide an operational technology environment where practitioners can run through real-world attack and defense scenarios and build skills in OT\/ICS security.
\u201cIndustrial and critical infrastructure in the UAE and the broader Gulf region faces real and growing threats, and the same threat groups we track globally are active here,\u201d Robert M. Lee, CEO and co-founder at Dragos, said<\/a> in a media statement. This Centre of Excellence gives operators in the region a place to see exactly how OT environments are monitored, how threats are detected, and what effective defense looks like in practice. Building that local understanding and capability is an important starting point, and we are proud to invest in talent, innovation, and long-term shared value with the Cyber Security Council.\u201d
\u201cThe Council\u2019s ongoing efforts, in collaboration with international partners, to establish Cybersecurity Centers of Excellence come amid an unprecedented surge in cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure,\u201d Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head of Cybersecurity for the UAE Government, said. \u201cThese serve as advanced, specialized platforms that enable the proactive anticipation of cyber threats, while providing the necessary mechanisms for continuous monitoring and the early detection of anomalous behavioral patterns in cyber incidents before they escalate. They also support the modeling of effective defense strategies and their practical application within real operational environments.\u201d
Al Kuwaiti added, \u201cAs we take pride in investing in specialized talent and technological innovation, we are laying the foundation for sustainable, long-term shared value, strengthening national readiness and cyber resilience to counter the threats of tomorrow that are already emerging today.\u201d\u00a0
Earlier this month, the UAE Cybersecurity Council and Nozomi Networks<\/a> announced a collaboration<\/a> aimed at strengthening the cybersecurity resilience of the UAE\u2019s critical infrastructure and industrial sectors. \u200dThe collaboration supports<\/a> the UAE\u2019s national vision to enhance cyber resilience across OT and Internet of Things (IoT) environments, providing deeper visibility, advanced threat detection, and intelligence\u2011driven security for critical national assets across energy, utilities, transportation, manufacturing, and smart infrastructure.
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Industrial cybersecurity vendor Dragos announced a public\u2013private partnership with the UAE Cyber Security Council (CSC) to establish OT Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence (CoE) in the UAE, under the nation\u2019s \u2018Make it in Emirates\u2019 Forum, representing a milestone in advancing the UAE\u2019s national cyber resilience and digital sovereignty.The Centre of Excellence will support the UAE\u2019s ambition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}