Under the patronage of the Head of the National Cyber Security Center, Major General Eng. Mohamed Abdulaziz Bouarki, The College of Engineering and Petroleum announced the fifth annual Cyber Security Education and Research Conference at the Conference Center in Sabah Al-Salem University City on the 15th and 16th of October 2023, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The conference is organized as a joint project between the British government - represented by the British Embassy in Kuwait - in cooperation with the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), Kuwait University and the Kuwait College of Science and Technology (KCST), and with the support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) and the British government.

The Cyber Security Education and Research Conference includes lectures, research, and panel discussions by a group of specialists from Britain, Kuwait and the GCC. This area of focus for this year’s conference revolves around digital trust and safety and includes topics such as: digital trust strategies, the role of artificial intelligence in cyberattacks, and cyber security awareness and data privacy.