Security & Networking
Cybersecurity Services in Abu Dhabi
Part of Cybersecurity Services in Dubai
Abu Dhabi has more organisations with security obligations imposed by somebody else than any other emirate — through government contracts, sector standards, ADGM's own regime, or a customer's supplier questionnaire. Knowing which reach you is the first piece of work.
Which obligations actually apply to you
Security duties arrive from several directions in Abu Dhabi at once. The federal data protection law sets a baseline, ADGM operates its own regime entirely, sector-specific standards apply in areas such as healthcare, and a customer's contract can impose more than any regulator does.
Which reach your Abu Dhabi entity depends on licence, sector and customers. A provider who tells you confidently which standard applies without asking those three questions is guessing, and a guess that turns out wrong is expensive when it surfaces in a supplier audit.
We establish applicability first, then assess against it, then produce evidence in the form the asking party actually accepts — which is usually not the form a scanner produces.
Applicability established
Which obligations reach your Abu Dhabi entity, based on licence, sector and customers.
ADGM checked separately
Its own regime rather than an assumption that the federal baseline covers it.
Customer requirements
Contract security clauses, which are frequently stricter than regulation.
Evidence in usable form
Records the asking party accepts rather than raw scanner output.
The loss that happens regardless of compliance
Compliance and safety are not the same thing. The loss an Abu Dhabi business actually suffers is usually payment redirection — an attacker reads a mailbox for weeks, then amends bank details inside a genuine invoice thread, and a real person in your Abu Dhabi finance office authorises a real payment.
Larger Abu Dhabi contract values make it worth more effort to the attacker than the same fraud against a smaller UAE business. The controls remain unglamorous and cheap: multi-factor authentication everywhere, alerting on mailbox forwarding rules, external-sender marking, and verifying changed bank details by phone to a number held beforehand.
Testing, remediation and how we deliver
We arrange and manage vulnerability assessment and penetration testing across your Abu Dhabi estate, and more importantly we remediate. A report sitting unactioned until the next test is a cost rather than a control, and we have reviewed more than one UAE report that did exactly that.
Assessment, configuration, monitoring and staff training are delivered remotely from Kannur; only a physical review — access to a cabinet in your Mussafah facility, what is plugged into what — is attended in person. We keep no Abu Dhabi office and say so.
Managed testing
Assessment and penetration testing arranged and overseen across your estate.
Remediation
Findings fixed and retested across your Abu Dhabi estate, which is the deliverable rather than the report.
Remote delivery
Assessment, configuration, monitoring and Abu Dhabi staff training delivered without travel.
Attended physical review
Server room and access control seen in person where it matters.
What’s included
- Obligation applicability review
- ADGM regime considerations
- Customer security questionnaire support
- Payment fraud controls
- Multi-factor authentication rollout
- Access review and least privilege
- Vulnerability assessment and remediation
- Evidence pack for supplier audits
Platforms we support
How we deliver
- 01
Discover
We map your current setup, constraints and priorities before proposing anything.
- 02
Architect
A written design with fixed deliverables, so scope is agreed before work starts.
- 03
Implement
Phased rollout with rollback points — production is never left in an unknown state.
- 04
Support
A named engineer, agreed response times and a handover your team can actually run.