Israel Leads New Cyber Defense Coalition with Morocco, UAE, and US

An international coalition dedicated to cyber defense has recently emerged in Tel Aviv. It is composed of the United States, Israel and the countries that have normalized their diplomatic relations with the Hebrew state: United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco. So the countries that have signed the Abraham Accords. Mostafa Rabiî, head of the Directorate General of Information Systems Security (DGSSI, under the FAR) and, moreover, director of the Moroccan Computer Emergency Response Team (maCERT), the center for monitoring, detecting and responding to computer attacks, represented Morocco at the Cybertech Global 2023 international cyber industry summit during which this coalition was set up.

"We are now a team. This partnership is a great achievement," he said enthusiastically during a public meeting with his counterparts from the other countries involved in the establishment of this mechanism, stressing that due to the existence of criminals from various groups, cyber threats no longer have borders and this concerns us all. "We need to push our teams to work together on concrete cases and to foster trust between us," the Moroccan official continued.

Morocco’s participation in these proceedings is part of the agreement signed in July 2021 between Rabat and Tel Aviv, which aims to promote bilateral efforts in the field of cybersecurity.