The United Arab Emirates has adopted many legislation to keep abreast of rapid technological developments and enhance their capacity to address e-crimes and strengthen cybersecurity and digital security standards, “Dr. Faisal Saeed Al Hefeiti said. Dr. Faisal Saeed Al-Hefeiti said that the state is constantly working to revise the laws and regulations of the cybersecurity, to take into account all types of cybercrime and protect current emerging technologies, to ensure that the status of a comprehensive legal and regulatory framework takes into account all Modern techniques including cloud services, artificial intelligence, internet objects, Plake Qin, and digital signature. The Hefeiti revealed that the State had adopted an integrated approach that contained essential actions, including regulatory legislation and digital fraud, as well as working to strengthen international work and cooperation and the care of innovation in the field of cybersecurity. In the launching of anti-rumors and electronic crimes law, which is decree with a federal law No. 34 of 2021, on 2 January 2022, which aims to provide a comprehensive legal framework to promote community protection from crimes Electronic committed through Internet networks and techniques. It also seeks to protect websites and government databases in the UAE and combat the spread of rumors, fake news, e-fraud, preservation of privacy and personal rights. Al-Hefeiti said that this law is very important, where crimes and sanctions against anyone may create or use an electronic location or any means of an information technology to penetrate, attack or tampering information, or disseminate false information, or a state-harmful information UAE. The law deals with other electronic offenses including the establishment or amendment of electronic robots to transfer false data in the State, forging electronic documents, or abuse of data and personal information, medical data, bank accounts, confidentiality, e-mail, publishing data or information Do not correspond to media content standards. The provisions of this law also punished both illegal content and refrain from removing, established and managed an electronic site for trafficking, incitement to gag, deployment of pornographic and prosecution, or possession or acquisition Use or acquire illegal funds, e-fraud and other many abuses criminalized by law. In addition, the State has adopted the establishment of the CIP headed by the Head of the UAE Government and follows the Cabinet and includes a number of federal and local authorities in the State, with a view to developing and strengthening a national strategy for cybersecurity in all vital sectors. The terms of reference includes the proposal and preparation of legislation, policies and criteria for strengthening cybersecurity for all targeted sectors in the State and submitting them to the Council of Ministers to adopt and follow up in coordination with the concerned authorities, as well as preparing, developing and updating The national cybersecurity strategy in the State and an integrated national response plan, including attacks, threats, preparedness and procedure, the development of the mechanism and the general framework for exchanging, participation and governance of information related to cybersecurity among different sectors and sectors Locally and internationally in coordination and cooperation with the concerned authorities and submitted to the Council of Ministers.
