{"id":269825,"date":"2026-06-10T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/gulf-states-urged-to-deepen-cyber-ties-as-ransomware-risks-grow\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:25:18","slug":"gulf-states-urged-to-deepen-cyber-ties-as-ransomware-risks-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/gulf-states-urged-to-deepen-cyber-ties-as-ransomware-risks-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf states urged to deepen cyber ties as ransomware risks grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agbi.com\/analysis\/cybersecurity\/2026\/06\/gulf-states-urged-to-deepen-cyber-ties-as-ransomware-risks-grow\/\">Gulf states urged to deepen cyber ties as ransomware risks grow<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agbi.com\/analysis\/cybersecurity\/2026\/06\/gulf-states-urged-to-deepen-cyber-ties-as-ransomware-risks-grow\/\">https:\/\/www.agbi.com\/analysis\/cybersecurity\/2026\/06\/gulf-states-urged-to-deepen-cyber-ties-as-ransomware-risks-grow\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-10 23:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.agbi.com\">www.agbi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list key-points\">\n<li>GCC urged to copy EU model <\/li>\n<li>Gulf must ensure \u2018operational resilience\u2019<\/li>\n<li>AI both a threat and a strength<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gulf states should forge deeper cyber ties as AI and ransomware create new vulnerabilities for critical national infrastructure, a cybersecurity expert has said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite billions being invested in digital transformation, the GCC is exposed to many of the same threats facing Europe and North America, said Professor Alan Woodward, a cybersecurity specialist at the UK\u2019s University of Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has spent decades building systems for sharing intelligence and coordinating responses to cyber incidents through bodies such as the bloc\u2019s law enforcement agency Europol and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne European country gets attacked, shares that intelligence quickly and others can put protections in place before they become victims themselves,\u201d Woodward told AGBI.<\/p>\n<p>While Gulf states cooperate on cybersecurity through regional forums, including the GCC Ministerial Committee for Cybersecurity, \u201cwhat Europe has done as a collective is form a centre of expertise,\u201d he said. \u201cYou get a force multiplier. You get strength in numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Valle, CEO of tech services company SCC Middle East, which this month opened its first regional headquarters in the UAE, said digital infrastructure was \u201cboth a strategic asset and a point of vulnerability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Valle, CEO of SCC Middle East<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe region\u2019s advantage will come not only from the pace of technology adoption, but from the quality of deployment and operational resilience behind it,\u201d said Valle, who is speaking at the Data Center Infrastructure and Cloud\u00a0Summit\u00a0this week in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Woodward said data centres and telecommunications networks are increasingly run by businesses, making information-sharing between governments and operators vital. <\/p>\n<p>More than 80 percent of successful attacks still begin with phishing emails, stolen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agbi.com\/analysis\/cybersecurity\/2026\/06\/gulf-states-urged-to-deepen-cyber-ties-as-ransomware-risks-grow\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf states urged to deepen cyber ties as ransomware risks grow https:\/\/www.agbi.com\/analysis\/cybersecurity\/2026\/06\/gulf-states-urged-to-deepen-cyber-ties-as-ransomware-risks-grow\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.agbi.com\/tachyon\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/mms07lgv1k91jsppn-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,25,27],"class_list":["post-269825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-phishing","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269827,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269825\/revisions\/269827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}