UAE Launches Cyber Resilience Hub to Secure Digital Services

The UAE Cyber Security Council and SCC Middle East will jointly develop a Centre of Excellence for Cyber Resilience and Trusted Technology, a facility intended to strengthen the security of the digital services citizens and businesses rely on every day. The Centre is meant to serve not only the country but the wider region and the globe, with a stated purpose of building national capability, supporting UAE cyber innovation and opening pathways to international markets.

For the public, the significance lies in what the Centre is designed to strengthen: the resilience of the systems underpinning a secure digital economy, including critical national infrastructure. The initiative sets out a three-phase approach, beginning with the building of national capability. This first phase covers executive learning, practical labs and specialist development across artificial intelligence, cloud, data, cybersecurity and critical national infrastructure, with the aim of helping organisations move from experimentation toward secure, practical adoption.

The second phase turns to homegrown innovation. A startup incubator programme will work to develop and scale UAE cyber innovation, testing and validating locally developed technologies against real-world requirements. The third phase looks outward, helping selected UAE-developed technologies connect with international customers, ecosystems and commercial opportunities.

Meanwhile, under the innovation centre, both parties will lead integration and delivery, bringing together the expertise and resources each programme requires. The Centre itself is described as an environment where government, enterprises, technology partners and specialists can explore emerging technologies, test real use cases and understand how new solutions can be adopted securely and at scale.

H.E. Dr Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head of Cyber Security for the UAE Government, framed the project in terms of the country’s wider digital ambitions. “The UAE has set ambitious goals around artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and the development of a secure and resilient digital economy,” he said. “The Centre of Excellence will create an environment for government, industry and technology partners to turn that ambition into practical capability.”

Daniel Valle, CEO of SCC Middle East, emphasised practical outcomes over display. “There is no shortage of technology available today. The harder question is how you bring the right technologies together, prove they work for the environment you are putting them into and then turn that into a real outcome,” he said. “That is what we want this Centre to be about. Not a showroom, but somewhere we can bring customers, partners and specialists together around real problems, test ideas and build solutions that can actually be deployed. Our role at SCC is to connect those pieces. We start with what the customer is trying to achieve, bring together the right people, technology and expertise, and remain accountable for making it work.”

Taken together, the phases trace a path from skills and knowledge, through locally developed and tested innovation, to international reach. For organisations across the UAE, and for the wider public that depends on secure digital services, the measure of the Centre will be whether that ambition translates into capability that is deployed, proven and accountable in practice.