Cybersecurity in Morocco

Yassine Maleh is an associate professor of cybersecurity and IT governance at Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco. He is a PhD in Computer Science from University Hassan 1st, Morocco, in 2017. He is the founding chair of IEEE Consultant Network Morocco and founding president of the African Research Center of Information Technology & Cybersecurity. He is a senior member of IEEE. Dr Maleh has made contributions in the fields of information security and privacy, Internet of things security, wireless and constrained networks security. His research interests include information security and privacy, Internet of things, networks security, information system, and IT governance. He has published over than 140 papers (book chapters, international journals, and conferences/workshops), 20 edited books, and 3 authored books. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, and the International Journal of Smart Security Technologies (IJSST). He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Access (2019 Impact Factor 4.098), the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF), and the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP). He is a series editor of Advances in Cybersecurity Management, by CRC Taylor & Francis. He was also a guest editor for many prestigious journals, such as IEEE Transactions on industrial informatics, IEEE Engineering Management Review, Big Data Journal and Sensors. He has served and continues to serve on executive and technical program committees and as a reviewer of numerous international conferences and journals such as Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Sensor Journal, ICT Express, and Springer Cluster Computing. He was the Publicity chair of BCCA 2019 and the General Chair of the MLBDACP 19 symposium and ICI2C'21 Conference. He received WoS Top 1% reviewer award for the years 2018 and 2019.
Youness Maleh holds a doctorate in public law and political science from Mohammed V University in Rabat. He is an assistant professor of politic sciences at the University Moulay Ismail of Meknes, Polydisciplinary Faculty of Errachidia. Member of the Executive Board of the Al-Manara Study and Research Center in Morocco. Secretary General of the African Center for Information Technology and Cyber Security in Morocco. Founding member and editor-in-chief of the Moroccan Journal of Financial and Fiscal Sciences. Member of the editorial board of the Masalek Journal of Thought, Politics and Economics. Member of the editorial board of International Law and Business Journal. He has published numerous books and scientific articles. Opinion writer for a group of Moroccan, Arab and international newspapers.

Introduction.- Understanding cybersecurity standards.- The African View on Cybersecurity.- The Moroccan View on Cybersecurity.- Morocco National Cybersecurity strategy.- National Cyber resilience Strategy in a post-COVID-19 world.- Cyber Sovereignty in Morocco.- Conclusion.