Small Business Cyber Security Consulting in Dubai

Contain before you clean. Disconnect the affected device from the network but leave it running, revoke sessions and reset passwords from a clean device, and turn on multi-factor authentication for every account with email, admin or payment access. Freeze any pending payment and verify changed bank details by phone on a number you already had. Then pull the sign-in and mailbox logs to establish what was reached, report the incident to Dubai Police through eCrime, and notify your cyber insurer inside the window your policy sets. Only then close the entry route and implement the baseline. The full sequence is in the six-step response above, and our incident response starts the same day you call.

Five controls: multi-factor authentication on email and admin accounts, backups you have actually restored from, patching that happens automatically, email authentication with SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and a one-page incident plan naming who to call. For a small business in Dubai that is the honest floor. Below it, an incident is a matter of time; above it, most opportunistic attacks fail at the first control. Regulated sectors add requirements on top, drawn from the UAE Information Assurance Standards, but the five above come first in every case.

Three layers, in this order. First, stop your own domain being spoofed by publishing SPF, DKIM and DMARC and moving DMARC to enforcement. Second, make a stolen password useless with phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication, ideally a hardware key for anyone who can move money. Third, give staff a one-click reporting route and verify every payment or bank detail change by phone on a known number. Training alone does not work, because modern phishing attacks are convincing enough that some will always land. Our website security page covers the technical layers in detail.

We quote a fixed fee in writing after a free 30 minute scoping call, so you know the number before any work starts. A small business baseline runs two to four weeks of work, and baseline plus website security runs three to six. Incident response is time and materials because nobody can honestly fix-fee an unknown breach. There is no product margin inside the fee: we do not resell software, and most of the minimum level of cyber security is configuration of licences you already pay for.

Yes, in scope rather than in standard. Enterprise engagements start with regulatory scoping across NESA, DESC ISR and PDPL and end in an evidence pack. Small business work starts with the five controls above and ends with them working. If you are bidding for government work or handling regulated data, you need the enterprise track instead: see cyber security consulting in Dubai.

We work with companies from roughly five staff upward. Below that, the honest answer is that you do not need a consultant: turn on multi-factor authentication, turn on automatic updates, back up to something offline, and publish SPF, DKIM and DMARC. That is most of the minimum level of cyber security and it costs a weekend.

Yes. For a small business the practical difference is usually contractual rather than regulatory: DIFC and ADGM entities sit under their own data protection regimes, and free zone authorities publish their own technology expectations. We establish which regime binds you during scoping, because that determines whether the baseline is enough or whether you need the enterprise track.

Routinely, and it is usually the cheapest way to run the work. We specify the controls, your provider implements what they are already contracted to implement, and we verify it. We do not resell monitoring or licences, so we have no commercial reason to recommend replacing them.

Same day. Call first and contain while we are on the way: disconnect the affected device without wiping it, and do not change anything on the server until we have the logs. Preserved evidence is what makes the insurance claim and the eCrime report work.

Then website security is the whole of your attack surface and it deserves the full baseline: patching, hardening, backups, monitoring, and email authentication so the domain cannot be used against your customers. Start on our website security page.