Journal of Cyber Security and Risk Auditing

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Cyber Intelligence & Moroccan National Security: What Strategy for Managing & Mitigating Cyber Threats against Future Sporting Events

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Kezzoute Mhammed

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Published: 2025

Abstract

Cyber intelligence currently presents itself as a key solution to strengthen cybersecurity practices and the resilience of vital infrastructures. For this, in our study, we explore the interactions between this new concept and national security, as well as the existing frameworks organizing national cybersecurity in the face of the rise of mutating and transformative cyber threats. Critiquing the existing frameworks, we hope to provide effective recommendations in existing legislation and regulatory frameworks, in funding methods, in modalities of international cooperation and collaboration, and in the development of key technologies and industries in this process, to overcome the current gaps and voids in the critical situation and strengthen measures for better national cybersecurity. Based on previous experiences regarding the application of these practices in conjunction with technologies to strengthen our argumentation process, we have observed that these measures are essential and important for the consolidation and securing of critical digital infrastructures and the preservation of cyber sovereignty, especially those that are aligned with international standards and technological advancements in cyber stability. For this reason, we call in this study for additional re-search on Morocco's National Cyber Strategy for 2030, exploring the possibilities of strengthening national cybersecurity against evolving cyber threats through the integration of cyber intelligence into detection, analysis, and decision-making processes.

Keywords

Moroccan Cyber StrategyMoroccan Cyber PolicyMoroccan Smart citiesCyber GovernanceCyber Security

Doi Link

https://doi.org/10.63180/jcsra.thestap.2025.4.12

How to Cite the Article

Mhammed, K. (2025). Cyber Intelligence & Moroccan National Security: What Strategy for Managing and Mitigating Cyber Threats against Future Sporting Events. Journal of Cyber Security and Risk Auditing, 2025(4), 366–383. https://doi.org/10.63180/jcsra.thestap.2025.4.12

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