Get practical answers for your cybersecurity FAQs and understand the threat scenarios, compliance needs, and steps to build a defensive business environment.
We have prepared these FAQs and crafted the responses based on our experts’ experience in delivering cybersecurity solutions for various sectors. The section below provides answers to all your common queries on application security, cyber risk management, data privacy, and enterprise security. We have explained our proven strategies for your FAQs on how we identify, perform ethical attacks, report, mitigate complex threats, and resolve other cybersecurity concerns.
FAQS
We mainly focus on three security testing approaches, like black box, white box, and gray box security testing. We apply the relevant techniques suitable for your business delivering web application penetration testing, mobile application security assessments, API security testing, and cloud application security reviews. Wattlecorp serves as the best VAPT services in the UAE, providing the best security services by scanning and identifying threats before they can become a major security challenge.
In VAPT, the vulnerability assessment is done to identify the security gaps and threat-prone areas. Following this penetration testing, an ethical attack activity is performed to exploit the identified vulnerable areas. These two closely associated practices should be performed at regular intervals to keep your business secure from evolving threats and breaches. By doing this, your UAE business will meet the country’s compliance requirements, protect customer data, and prevent costly security breaches.
The timelines and frequency depends on each organisation. Typically, we suggest you perform penetration testing at least annually. Moreover, if you are a business aligned with a high-risk industry related to finances or if your system is subject to frequent updates, then you need to consider conducting pentesting at regular shorter intervals to keep your business environment secure.Â
Vulnerability Assessment is an automated scan process enabled in your systems and your business ecosystem to identify security gaps that area vulnerable for attackers. Penetration testing is done by ethical hackers or assigned security professionals. In this process, experts perform simulated attacks similar to real-world scenarios to check the security strength.
Yes, we cover services for iOS and Android. Wattlecorp has trained professionals who excel in providing the top-quality penetration testing service in the UAE. We test the mobile apps for weaker areas, insecure data storage, authentication flaws, and API security issues.
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By taking ISO 27001 consulting, your organization will be provided expert guidance on how to implement, manage, and maintain an Information Security Management System in line with ISO 27001 standards. Your UAE businesses must take this ISO 27001 consulting to keep your data secure, assess risks, comply with regulatory standards, and improve customer trust.
The Abu Dhabi Health Information and Cyber Security Standards, otherwise ADHICS, is set by the Department of Health of Abu Dhabi. This compliance is designed for all healthcare organizations operating in the Abu Dhabi region. The purpose of this standard is to enable the security and privacy of all healthcare data that is accessed in hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and healthcare centers in the UAE.
NESA is the brief of the National Electronic Security Authority in the UAE and is now known in the name SIA—Signal Intelligence Agency. It is a national cybersecurity framework that defines security controls for different sectors. This includes banking, finance, telecommunications, energy, transportation, and healthcare. It is mandated to keep these businesses stronger in security, be defensive to attacks, reduce operational risks, and ensure business continuity.
It requires almost 6-12 months to attain ISO 27001 certification. Our experts screen your business environment, assess risks, implement controls, run an audit check, and once these processes are completed, your company will be ISO 27001 certified. We also provide, our team will do continuous monitoring and improvements.
Yes, Wattlecorp provides post-certification support to monitor if your organization is compliance-ready. We provide assistance on regular durations for recertification needs, enable policy updates, do regular security evaluations, and provide advisory services. Through this, we help you maintain compliance whenever regulatory standards are updated or your business expands to the next level.
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Data Protection Officer as a Service means that when you don’t have an in-house expert, you can assign this official from Wattlecorp as a service. If your business in the UAE processes crucial customer data, you need to comply with data protection rules of the country and other privacy regulations. To check and ensure that your business is aligned to all these mandatory rules, your company must have a DPO.
Wattlecorp helps your business GDPR aligned with our DPO as a service, where our experts perform data audits, build a defensive digital environment by preparing strong privacy policies, validating consent and enabling transparent privacy policies. With these data protection practices, we help your UAE business comply with the GDPR compliance that accesses EU residents’ data.
Our experts thoroughly evaluate how your organisation performs all data-related activities like collecting, storing, processing, and sharing personal data of customers. We regularly review your data inventory, consent practices, security controls, vendor agreements, retention policy updates, and enable updated privacy practices mandated by the government.
Yes, we prepare custom privacy policies by understanding the unique business needs and the data collection activities. We prepare personalized privacy policies, data processing agreements, consent forms, data subject rights procedures, and breach response processes all aligned with the latest data protection rules of the UAE and the target country.
Failing to comply with any of the UAE’s privacy regulations can result in charging you with fines ranging from AED 500,000 to AED 3 million and a five-year jail term for severe concerns. Violation of privacy rules is not only a concern of financial penalties, but your company will also be facing reputational damage, which can affect customer retention. So you must actively follow the privacy regulations by considering DPO as a service to keep your business’s data protected.
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A virtual chief information security officer is an outsourced security professional that you can hire for your organization rather than assigning a full-time resource. Your organization will benefit in multiple ways, like cost-effective hiring, flexibility, access to top experts, compliance assistance, regular security checks without having to assign in-house talent, and updating privacy policies aligned to the latest standards.
A virtual CISO completely aligns with your internal team and works collaboratively for a significantly longer duration based on the demand, providing C-level guidance. Whereas regular security consulting is more like a project-based hire. The assigned individual will be like a temporary employee who works on resolving the immediate security concerns that arise in your organization.
Through our virtual CISO services, we help enterprises handle high-risk challenges, including malware, insider threats, data breaches, risks from vendor end, and phishing. Wattlecorp’s experts have years of expertise handling such serious threat issues and handling them without causing any disruption to the organization’s working processes.
Security strategies must be reviewed periodically whenever there is a major system change, security threat, or regulatory update. There are no specific timelines defined to perform these reviews, and the duration differs based on each business’s growth and frequency of system updates.
Yes. Usually, startups and similar growing ventures look for a cost-effective way to hire a security expert, and a virtual CISO is the best option. For businesses that want to mature the security program, plan to strengthen the IT security team, and struggle to align with the regulatory standards, all under a moderate budget, hiring a virtual CISO is a feasible option
Wattlecorp is a trusted cybersecurity partner helping you strengthen your business’s security posture with highly curated security solutions for all companies in the UAE. We provide comprehensive penetration testing services in the UAE, in which we exploit weaknesses through ethical security practices. We deliver high-end security services, where you can take guidance from our ISO 27001 consultants in the UAE or consider DPO as a service if you are looking for an outsourced hire. Our service also extends to delivering virtual CISO services as full-time support, providing experts to the in-house team.
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