The National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) and Oman Data Park (ODP), have 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 utilise 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 server’s 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 Oman Data Park Company, said: “This cooperation is considered as an important step that reflexes the confidence of the government and private agencies in the capabilities of Oman Data Park.

“It also enables organisations 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 Oman Data Park provides homogeneous data solutions with international standards, in addition to top-quality 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 that several entities and companies will follow the example of this partnership between NCSI and ODP in order to achieve the same goals that they aspire to.

Oman Data Park has continuously provided specialised professional services to various administrative units in government agencies across the Sultanate in the cloud services fields and security assessment services.

For this, the company conducts penetration tests that aim at identifying, evaluating technical weaknesses, and setting preventive measures to protect them from external and internal electronic threats, which relate to Information Technology.

He added: “The security assessment services provided by Oman 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.”