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National Information Security Awareness (ISA) Committee formed in UAE

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Harmeet
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DUBAI, UAE: Leading government, semi-government, education, and private establishments in the United Arab Emirates met at the HCT-Abu Dhabi Women's College (ADWC) in the second week of December to lay the groundwork for the establishment of a formalized national Information Security Awareness (ISA) committee.

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The initiative, spearheaded by regional IT security solutions and consultancy specialist Help AG and Computer Science and Information Security facility members at the Higher Colleges of Technology, aims to set up a centralized body that will address security risks related to a lack of online security awareness in the UAE, and will also develop standards, guidelines, and best practices for effective implementation of information security awareness programs and workshops across the country.

Mona Nasser Almansoori, Principal Information Security Engineer, Ministry of Presidential Affairs said: "Creating a committee that educates children, students, parents, employees and generally the people of our society, is a big responsibility that should be taken by all of us. It needs developing from all the organisations and the private companies in the UAE to create an unbeatable success.

"I am very proud to be one of the agents in the ISA committee, which is initiated by Help AG and HCT, and I am willing to keep the feeling of the national security awareness in the UAE. At the end we have to work together to achieve the committee goals which provides information awareness training by implementing affective information security awareness programs."

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