Cybersecurity in Morocco

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Yassine Maleh, Youness Maleh

   Pages 1-11

3. Understanding Cybersecurity Standards

   • Yassine Maleh, Youness Maleh

   Pages 13-27

4. The African View on Cybersecurity

   • Yassine Maleh, Youness Maleh

   Pages 29-40

5. The Moroccan View on Cybersecurity

   • Yassine Maleh, Youness Maleh

   Pages 41-50

6. Morocco National Cybersecurity Strategy

   • Yassine Maleh, Youness Maleh

   Pages 51-66

7. National Cyber Resilience Strategy in a Post-COVID-19 World

   • Yassine Maleh, Youness Maleh

   Pages 67-75

8. Cyber Sovereignty in Morocco

   • Yassine Maleh, Youness Maleh

   Pages 77-89

9. Conclusion

   • Yassine Maleh, Youness Maleh

   Pages 91-92

10. Back Matter

    Pages 93-96

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This SpringerBrief  contains eight chapters and presents an overview of the evolution of the Moroccan Cybersecurity Strategy. It also draws attention to the development of cybersecurity in Morocco and to ensure national security in the context of the current and developing information confrontation in the international community. However, it cannot promise to provide an in-depth examination. The issue of cybersecurity is simply too wide-ranging for our purposes. This acknowledgment is meant to encourage more detailed research into the broader topics covered in this brief to better inform current approaches to national cybersecurity performance evaluation.


This SpringerBrief targets researchers interested in exploring and understanding Morocco and its efforts in implementing its national cybersecurity strategy. This brief is also a relevant reference for diplomats, executives, CISOs, cybersecurity professionals and engineers working in this related field.

• Cybersecurity
• Morocco
• National security
• cybersecurity strategy
• cybersecurity policy
• Cyber Law
• Digital sovereignty
• Cyber Defence
• Directorate General for Information Security DGSSI
• Diplomacy
• Cyber resilience
• Digital Nation
• Cyber Sovereignty

• University Sultan Moulay Slimane, Beni Mellal, Morocco

  Yassine Maleh

• University Moulay Ismail, Meknes, Morocco

  Youness Maleh

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.

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