Electronic Media Cybersecurity Strategies in Kuwait (in Arabic).

Résumé

The study aims to know the strategies of the electronic media in Kuwait towards cybersecurity, and to study the differences between them according to the personal variables of the sample to achieve cybersecurity. The need for the study has emerged, not only because these cyber-piracy is launched by individuals but also because there are companies that specialize in this. Thus, there is an urgent need to control these attacks and get rid of their consequences. This is what the State of Kuwait seeks to achieve. In order to achieve this goal, the descriptive approach has been adopted, and a questionnaire has been built as a tool for data collection. The research sample consisted of 150 individuals working in Kuwaiti electronic newspapers, the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), and Kuwaiti government media websites and those in charge of them.

The study has made several conclusions, the most important of which is that the schemes employed by the electronic media towards cyber security came at a high level. This reflects the increase in the schemes employed by the electronic media in Kuwait towards cyber security, where community media training is conducted to report on websites that embody false news, uncover hotbeds and plotting of terrorist organizations, and inform the public of penalties and deterrent laws for perpetrators of cyber threats. The schemes adopted by the Kuwaiti newspapers and Kuwaiti governmental media workforce towards cybersecurity indicates a high degree use of them, as such bodies seek technical support as one of the basics of cybersecurity for administrative systems, and they may provide a special department for cybersecurity.

Among the most important recommendations: increasing the awareness of electronic media workers about the dangers of relying on personal devices, such as mobile phones to store confidential data related to work, and having a technical governance system to provide cyber security for electronic transactions, and tightening penalties for cyberspace crimes, and more technical support must be provided as one of fundamentals for achieving cyber security of administrative data.