Securing The Middle East & The Arab World

We offer Security Solutions to our clients in the greater Middle East that address the particular needs and challenges of business in the region. We understand your culture, your language, your business practices, your obstacles, your needs, and your fears.

Employee Training & Awareness

Building Awareness

Even for International Companies, the awareness of Information Security and the needs of business in the Middle East can be quite different from those of companies in the United States.

In the Arab culture, being helpful and of assistance to someone in trouble is a prized character attribute. When you're dealing with a thief, it can ruin your business. We train them to recognize social engineering techniques that could make them give up client's information -- bank account number, ATM access number, account balances, etc.

Information Security awareness is still a 'new' concept in many parts of the Middle East. We will work with departments and management in your company to bring an awareness of secure practices to your personnel through best practices training -- in Arabic or in English. You end up with employees who are security saavy and are more aware of security risks.

Practices, Policies, Behaviors

Good employees are an invaluable asset to business. A great part of securing your enterprise lies in training your staff to understand how valuable your clients' data, your business' sensitive information and the technology systems that store them, are to competitors, hackers, criminals, disgruntled employees and other malevolent people.

The more sensitive the data, the more attractive it is to all of those above.

We train your staff in the importance of secure data handling (paper and electronic), adhering to secure practices when using passwords, accessing accounts electronically, and handling sensitive documents.

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Solutions, Software and Tools

Alawy is experienced in implementing a variety of Security Solutions. While most of our work has been with Netegrity / Computer Associates (CA) security products, including SiteMinder, IdentityMinder, and TransactionMinder, we also regularly work with IBM's Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Identity Manager and RSA's ClearTrust.

We also encourage the development and implementation of OpenSource technology, such as OpenSSO (SUN's open implementation) and Java Open Single Sign-On.

Software Tools are only part of what it takes to secure an enterprise. Read about our Experience & Reach, Clients & Industries we've worked with and Project Summaries.

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Import Regulations and Technology Restrictions

Regulations governing the exportation and importation of advanced security technologies, algorithms and methodologies into many countries in the Middle East, coupled with a region-wide over-reliance on notoriously unsecure technologies, can seem to be a hindrance to providing adequate security to your enterprise. We will help by transversing the regulatory minefield to find and implement Industry Standard security solutions that won't put you in legal jeopardy.

Industry Standard Solutions

All of our solutions are Industry Standard and conform to recognized global security quality standards. However, "Industry Standard" doesn't have to mean "expensive" or "restrictive". We will advise the best solution for you based on your business and technical needs, your budget, export restrictions and regulations in your country.

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Confidentiality

From the first moment we work with you, we apply a strict Confidentiality practice. Your business' reputation, secrets and practices are protected. As an American company, with a consultancy practice in the Middle East, we are bound by U.S. Federal Law to adhere to strict and explicit measures of client confidentiality.

We cannot disclose information that we collected while on the Client's site or information otherwise shared with us by the Client or its representatives. Information is not released to any party, either inside or outside of the organization. Our employees and consultants are governed by a binding Confidentiality Agreement that safeguards you against the release of business practices, technical and infrastructure information, user names and passwords, Intellectual property and such. All sensitive information collected during the course of the engagement is destroyed upon project completion. Confidential information is any information that is not meant for public knowledge.

Fostering Trust

European and American companies must be in compliance with stringent privacy laws. These regulations state that they cannot disclose, or allow to be disclosed any information relating to the client. They are required to secure their information infrastructure and provide training in information management and handling to their employees, consultants and business partners domestically or abroad. By extension, so must their partners.
We help you become a 'trusted' business partner to international companies. Who can rest assured that you have the secure business practices needed to safeguard their client's sensitive information.

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Countries Where We Work

We are currently available to provide Security Consulting and deploy IT Security solutions in the following countries in the Middle East:
Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E. - Dubai, Abu Dhabi).

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