A common purpose for the cybersecurity sector.
CSBG is a business group under Dubai Chambers, with a UAE-wide perspective on cybersecurity. We connect private-sector experience with dialogue on shared business priorities, practical knowledge, and the conditions that help the sector develop.
Under Dubai Chambers
A forum for practical sector progress.
CSBG connects organizations that develop cybersecurity capabilities with those that rely on them. We aim to turn shared concerns into informed dialogue, useful reference practices, and closer links between business, education, and innovation across the UAE.
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A sector-focused business group under Dubai Chambers, connecting cybersecurity with the wider business environment.
A neutral forum
Discussion centered on shared issues, practical experience, and the interests of the sector.
A practical purpose
An emphasis on useful understanding, clearer reference practices, stronger skills, and relevant innovation.
Our mission
To convene a neutral, noncommercial forum for cybersecurity dialogue and collaboration that strengthens capability and resilience across the UAE’s private sector.
Our vision
A trusted, connected cybersecurity sector that strengthens the UAE’s digital economy, develops its people, and supports useful innovation.
Cybersecurity capability supports business confidence.
Confidence in digital services depends on more than individual products. It also depends on capable teams, clear responsibilities, useful reference practices, and constructive exchange between the organizations involved. CSBG brings a business perspective to those shared needs.
Trust in digital growth
Security and resilience support the adoption of digital services and new technology across businesses and their supply chains.
Capability that works in practice
Organizations need to connect requirements with implementation, workforce skills, supplier relationships, and incident decisions.
A connected industry perspective
Providers, enterprise teams, researchers, and smaller businesses see different parts of the same challenge. Bringing those perspectives together improves understanding.
Our four strategic pillars
Our four pillars connect the business environment, practical cybersecurity capability, people, and innovation. Together they define the subjects for collaboration and the useful work we seek to develop.
Policy dialogue and consultation
Bring shared business issues into structured discussion. Connect practical experience with policy-relevant questions, clearer issue briefs, and a better understanding of sector priorities.
Capability and reference practices
Make recurring implementation questions easier to understand and address through practical playbooks, shared terminology, supplier-assurance discussions, and incident preparedness.
Talent and workforce
Connect employers, educators, researchers, and practitioners around the capabilities needed at work. Support dialogue on skills, career pathways, practical learning, and professional development.
Ecosystem and innovation
Connect emerging cybersecurity ideas with real business needs. Explore SME readiness, enterprise adoption, interoperability, and the conditions that help useful innovation develop.
Our objectives
Our objectives connect immediate business concerns with the sector’s longer-term development.
Collaboration and problem-solving
Bring companies and specialists together around common challenges and practical experience.
Industry and international exchange
Connect local perspectives with wider cybersecurity knowledge and discussion.
Startup development
Explore the conditions, capabilities, and relationships that help cybersecurity ventures grow.
Awareness and readiness
Encourage a stronger cybersecurity culture and more accessible understanding, particularly for smaller businesses.
Talent and education
Connect industry skills needs with universities, research, and professional development.
Leadership and collaboration framework
The Steering Committee guides CSBG’s direction. Four foundational areas, sector perspectives, and specialist topics provide a framework for discussing priorities and potential contributions.
Steering Committee
Guides the group’s direction and connects its priorities with the practical needs of the cybersecurity sector.
Meet the leadershipAdvisory perspectives
Policy, academic, and industry expertise can inform the group’s priorities and help connect sector questions with relevant knowledge.
Foundational areas of work
Four areas provide the foundation for focused collaboration.
Policy dialogue and consultation
Bring business perspectives to shared policy questions and sector priorities.
Standards and reference practices
Exchange practical approaches to cybersecurity capability, reference frameworks, and supplier assurance.
Talent and workforce
Connect workforce needs with skills development, education, and professional practice.
Ecosystem and collaboration
Connect organizations, share knowledge, and identify opportunities for collaboration across the cybersecurity sector.
Shared questions across sectors.
Cybersecurity priorities take different forms in financial services, healthcare, energy and utilities, manufacturing, telecommunications, transport and logistics, public services, and education. Our agenda welcomes those different operating contexts and the lessons that can be shared across them.
Sector perspectives
Different industries bring distinct operating needs to cybersecurity discussions. Contributions reflect professional perspectives and do not represent or act on behalf of government entities.
- Financial services
- Healthcare
- Energy and utilities
- Manufacturing
- Telecommunications
- Transport and logistics
- Public services
- Education
- Defense
Subjects for industry discussion
Specialist topics. Specialist themes connect expertise across industries and provide a focus for practical discussion.
- Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity
- Operational technology security
- Cloud security
- Data protection and privacy
- Threat intelligence
- Incident response and digital forensics
- Identity and access management
- Governance, risk, and compliance
A constructive, responsible exchange.
Useful industry dialogue depends on relevance, professional respect, and responsible sharing. Keep contributions focused on shared challenges and information you are authorized to discuss.
Shared industry interests
Focus on practical questions and the development of the sector. Keep sales pitches and product promotion separate from the discussion.
Responsible information sharing
Protect confidential client information, personal data, and live incident details. Share only material you are authorized to disclose.
Professional independence
Make relevant interests clear and respect different perspectives. Avoid pricing, active tenders, and commercially sensitive discussions.
Informational contribution
Reference practices and industry perspectives support understanding and discussion. They do not confer certification or supplier endorsement.
UAE priorities. A wider exchange of knowledge.
Our UAE focus is strengthened by learning from wider cybersecurity experience. We welcome perspectives on shared capability, workforce, and innovation challenges across the region and internationally, with discussion grounded in the needs of the UAE’s business community.
Under Dubai Chambers. Working across the UAE.
In March 2023, Dubai Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy, announced the launch of six digital business groups, including cybersecurity services. CSBG brings that sector focus to dialogue and collaboration across the UAE under Dubai Chambers.
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