Qatar Safer from Cyber Crime than US, Security Pro Claims
Marcus J. Ranum, Tenable Network Security
Qatar is safer than the United States from the blitz of cyber crime because it has developed the right infrastructure to deal with it, according to a security expert.
“From the people I talked to, it looks like Qatar is in pretty good shape because your infrastructure is all very new, said Marcus J. Ranum, chief security officer of Tenable Security, told Qatari newspaper The Peninsula.
Speaking before IT professionals during a conference organized by ictQATAR Cyber Security Programme, Ranun said the emirate’s effort to transition to fiber-optics communications technology is a step in the right direction to build a good infrastructure against cyber attacks.
Some areas in the United States still use the old copper cable telephone lines that are vulnerable to cyber attacks, Ranum said, which has made the nation lag behind more developing countries like Qatar.
Qatar is fortunate enough in developing such a modern IT infrastructure, while the United States is still dealing with the legacy of “brain damage” in the IT security ecosystem, he added. The Qatari infrastructure, he said, is also much smaller to handle in maintaining a more secure IT environment.
On the topic of businesses considering a move to cloud computing, Ranum said it is a matter of assessing their IT system. While cloud computing is already an inevitable system that everyone should now embrace, he said, it would still take five years to a decade to figure out the impact of this new technology.
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