Doha • ictQatar, the Supreme Council of Information and Communications Technology, will host a workshop for GCC states on building national information security incident response capability at the Sheraton Doha today and tomorrow.

The workshop will focus on building national computer security incident management capabilities in each GCC member-nation and establishing a regional framework for cooperation among the national Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) of the GCC countries, a release said.

National CERT teams are responsible for improving information security through training information technology staff, increasing the public's awareness of information security, responding to information security incidents and working directly with organisations within their states.

Established here in 2005 by ictQatar, Q-CERT was formed in collaboration with the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie-Mellon University.