Overview

During 2015, Ahmed was responsible for the formation of Bahrain’s national computer emergency response team (CERT.bh), he put together the Arab region’s first comprehensive framework for cyber security with the view to enhance trust in digital environments – this framework, the Cyber Trust Programme, is undergoing government-wide deployment. He championed Bahrain’s Cyber Crimes law with the national assembly and was responsible for most of its final articles, and the State Secrets law (data classification) as well, which applies to all government and state-owned or operated entities. He further supervised the deployment of a national PKI root certification authority, and is now directing the implementation of qualified signatures to be deployed through the national ID card for citizens and residents alike.

Also during 2015, Ahmed took the personal initiative to conduct numerous workshops and seminars at universities, institutes, large CNI organizations, most of which were ‘pro-bono’. Such venues include the Royal University for Women, the Judicial and Legal Studies Institute, and several public schools.

Ahmed did not interrupt his day-to-day activities when he wanted to add ‘law’ to his repertoire of skills, as he went back to college part-time, finished a full 4-year law degree, and graduated top of his class. He uses his techno-legal knowledge effectively to tackle issues both from legal and technical aspects. Ahmed maintains a weekly blog which targets raising awareness with the general public at lawtechntea.com.