The Computing Incident Response Team for the Financial Sector (EG-FinCIRT) of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has successfully obtained the membership of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation \u2013 Computer Emergency Response Teams (OIC-CERT), emphasizing on Egypt\u2019s pioneering strides in this dynamic field.<\/p>\n
This membership comes as another proof of the CBE\u2019s successful strategy to build an integrated framework to reinforce cybersecurity in the financial and banking sectors, and in recognition of EG-FinCIRT\u2019s endeavors during the past years. Furthermore, it demonstrates the EG-FinCIRT\u2019s keenness to adopt and comply with international cybersecurity standards and policies, as well as ensuring their comprehensive implementation.<\/p>\n
In this context, Dr.\u00a0Sherif Hazem, CBE’s Sub-Governor for the\u00a0Cybersecurity\u00a0Sector emphasized, \u201cThe Central Bank of Egypt\u2019s membership in OIC-CERT reflects its keenness to continuously build capacities, while capitalizing on the regional and international expertise in the cybersecurity arena, underlining the unprecedented developments achieved by Egypt in this field.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Ibrahim Mostafa, Assistant Sub-Governor of the CBE and Director of EG-FinCIRT stated that “This benchmark represents another significant addition to the efforts of the EG-FinCIRT to keep up with the continuous developments in the field of cybersecurity. It also contributes to enhancing the Egyptian financial sector institutions\u2019 ability to withstand and mitigate cyber threats, as well as raising cybersecurity awareness and empowering the cooperation in research and innovation.”<\/p>\n
\nThe membership of the Central Bank of Egypt in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation – Computer Emergency Response Team (OIC-CERT) comes in alignment to the CBE\u2019s strategy, whereas it aims to promote cooperation and integration, sponsor the exchange of knowledge and expertise, develop cooperative initiatives, and enable partnerships among member states in the cybersecurity field.<\/p>\n
In this manner, the CBE\u2019s strategy aims to enhance the participation of the EG-FinCIRT in implementing the National Cybersecurity Strategy efficiently and effectively, in addition to support building the technical capacities of state entities to enable timely response and coordinate the mitigation of cybersecurity attacks.<\/p>\n
It is also worth mentioning that, EG-FinCIRT has successfully obtained, in May 2023, the accreditation and membership in the Global Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), after meeting all the technical and organizational requirements, to become Egypt\u2019s first sectoral cybersecurity incident response team internationally recognized by FIRST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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