Muscat, December 2021
CEO of NCSI: Cloud services ensure uninterrupted business continuity
CEO of TDP: Cooperation with NCSI emphasizes the confidence of the government and private agencies in the capabilities of The Data Park
The National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) and The Data Park (TDP), signed a partnership and cooperation contract in the technical field including cloud services.
The inked partnership will contribute to enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the work of the government entities and ensuring the business progress in general.
H.E. Dr. Khalifa bin Abdullah bin Hamad Al Barwani, CEO of the National Centre for Statistics and Information, stated: “The global technical development has raised an urgent need to utilize the cloud services’ capabilities and its advantages, in particular, it contributes to reducing the entities’ financial and operational costs , and ensuring the uninterrupted business continuity, as well as enhancing the flexibility of accessing the NCIS’s various IT infrastructure, information systems and applications from any geographical location”.
“The cloud services also provide the flexibility of controlling the technical resources of the main servers and enhance the servers compatibility and conformity with the standards and controls imposed by the set standards of the e-government and digital transformation applications” Al Barwani added.
Eng. Maqbool bin Salem Al Wahaibi, CEO of The Data Park said: ”This cooperation is considered as an important step that reflexes the confidence of the government and private agencies in the capabilities of The Data Park. It also enables organizations to gain the various benefits of the cloud services, its high cyber security protection systems, and its technical support service around the clock, seven days a week.
He added that The Data Park provides homogeneous data solutions with international standards, in addition to the top quality of its Cyber Security Park services, including the Security Operations Center services (SOC) and Network Operations Center services (NOC) around the clock, seven days a week”.
Al Wahaibi expressed his expectations for several entities and companies to follow the example of this partnership between NCSI and TDP, in order to achieve the same goals that we aspire to. The Data Park is always available to provide its specialized professional services to the various administrative units of government agencies in the Sultanate in the cloud services fields. He also added the availability of security assessment services for these agencies, such as Penetration tests, that is aimed at identifying, evaluating technical weaknesses, and setting preventive measures to protect them from external and internal electronic threats.
He added, “The security assessment services provided by The Data Park are used to create a defensive strategy in the information technology field, which can be implemented by various organizations to reduce potential security risks in the such fields”
