VOWTECH conducts structured security risk assessments for organisations in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and across the UAE. We look at governance, processes, people and technology together, and give leadership a clear, prioritised view of where the organisation is exposed and what to do about it.
Directors and owners rarely need to know which server is missing which patch. They need to know which risks could stop the business trading, expose customer data or breach a contract, how likely those events are, and what it would cost to reduce them. A security risk assessment is designed to answer those questions.
The work is mostly interviews, document review and analysis rather than scanning. We examine how decisions are made, who holds access, how suppliers are managed, how incidents would be handled and whether policies match practice. Technical evidence from a vulnerability assessment or penetration test can be included, but it is one input among several.
The output is a risk register: each risk described plainly, scored for likelihood and impact, assigned an owner and paired with a recommended treatment. It gives leadership a defensible basis for budgets and priorities, and a baseline for our information security consultancy to build on.
Security failures seldom have a purely technical cause. The assessment examines all three layers and how they interact.
Who is accountable for security, what rules exist and whether anyone follows them. Policies that live only in a folder do not reduce risk, so we compare the written word with daily practice.
Staff, contractors and suppliers all handle your information. We look at how access is granted and withdrawn, how aware people are of common threats, and what your vendors can reach.
The controls that protect systems day to day: backup, patching, access control, monitoring and incident response. We assess whether each control exists, works and is actually checked.
Each component builds on the one before, ending in a document leadership can act on.
We identify the information and systems the business depends on, where they are held, who owns them and how sensitive they are. Risk is then assessed against what matters most.
Realistic scenarios are developed for your sector and size: ransomware, invoice fraud, insider misuse, supplier compromise, loss of a key system or of a key person.
Existing policies, procedures and reporting lines are reviewed for gaps, contradictions and rules that are no longer followed, with practical recommendations for each.
Your current position is compared with UAE data protection requirements, sector expectations and any security framework you have chosen to follow. See also quality and compliance consulting.
For each critical process we establish what an outage or data loss would mean operationally and financially, and how long the business could tolerate it.
Risks are scored, ranked and documented with owners and treatments: reduce, transfer, avoid or accept. A phased roadmap shows what to tackle first.
A structured engagement that respects the time of the people we need to speak to.
Objectives, business units, sites and stakeholders are agreed with a management sponsor.
We meet process owners and IT, and review policies, contracts, diagrams and previous reports.
Existing controls are checked for design and operation, with technical scanning where agreed.
Each risk is rated for likelihood and impact using a scale agreed with you, then ranked.
The risk register and roadmap are presented to leadership, with time for questions and decisions.
Without one, security spending follows the latest headline or sales pitch instead of the actual exposure of the business.
Spending is directed to the risks that matter, and each investment can be explained to the board.
Every significant risk gets a named owner, so nothing sits in the gap between IT and management.
Customers, insurers and auditors increasingly ask how risk is managed. A current register is the answer.
VOWTECH has been based in Abu Dhabi since 2015 and frames recommendations for how UAE businesses actually operate.
Technical scanning and review that supplies evidence of system-level weaknesses.
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Learn moreTell us about your organisation and what is prompting the review. We will propose a scope, carry out the assessment and brief your leadership on the results.
