Cybersecurity consulting
Cybersecurity consulting in Dubai
Where your security actually stands, what to fix first, and what the UAE data protection rules mean for your systems — advice scoped to the team and budget you have, not the one a framework assumes.
Consulting, not a product pitch
Most security conversations in this market start with a product. Ours starts with an assessment, and quite often ends with a recommendation to configure something you already own rather than buy anything new.
We also sell managed security services on the infrastructure side — backup, detection and response, multi-factor authentication. The consulting is deliberately separate from that, and a report that concludes "you do not need this from us" is a valid outcome.
What we do
Security posture assessment
A structured look at identity, endpoints, network, backup, email and cloud configuration. What is exposed, what is misconfigured, what would happen if one laptop were compromised this afternoon.
UAE data protection readiness
What the Personal Data Protection Law requires of you in practice, where your personal data physically sits, and whether transfers out of the country are documented. Health data has its own localisation requirement under Federal Law No. 2 of 2019 — that one is not optional.
Incident response planning
Who does what in the first hour, who has authority to disconnect, who talks to customers, and where the backups are. Written before you need it, tested once written.
Remediation you can staff
A prioritised plan with effort attached to each item, so a two-person IT team gets a list it can actually finish rather than a 90-page report that gets filed.
What we usually find
The same handful of issues, in most environments, regardless of size.
- Backups that have never been restored. Running nightly, reporting success, never once tested. This is the most common finding and the most dangerous.
- Multi-factor authentication on email but nowhere else. The VPN, the server console and the admin portals are frequently left on a password alone.
- Former staff with live accounts. Leavers removed from the payroll system, still present in the directory, sometimes for years.
- Flat networks. The CCTV, the printer, the guest Wi-Fi and the finance server on one segment, reachable from each other.
- Nobody knows where the data is. A SaaS tool adopted by one department, holding customer data, in a country nobody has checked.
- Local administrator rights everywhere. Convenient on day one, and the reason one compromised machine becomes all of them.
None of these need a new product. They need someone to look, write it down, and fix them in order.
How an engagement runs
1. Scope
A conversation about what you run, what worries you and what has already happened. Usually an hour.
2. Assess
Technical review with your team, interviews with the people who actually operate the systems. One to two weeks for most businesses.
3. Report
Findings ranked by real risk, each with effort and cost. Short enough that the management team will read it.
4. Fix
Your team, our team, or both. We are happy to hand the report over and walk away if that is the right answer.
Find out where you stand
An assessment takes a week or two and tells you what would actually happen in an incident. Most businesses find at least one thing they assumed was working.