Dubai, United Arab Emirates:  Dubai Electronic Security Center (DESC) highlighted the key changes of the Information Security Regulation (ISR) to the developed Version 2.0. The ISR’s purpose is to provide government entities with optimal and most secure standards to ensure mitigation of any vulnerabilities and external risks across all Dubai Government Entities.

The main intention of ISR is to preserve an appropriate level of confidentiality, integrity, and availability for information assets handling controls in Dubai government entities.

 “ISR Version 2.0 is going to be a step forward and a way to ensure the improvement of information Security.” According to the ISR team.

Dubai Government Entities are expected to implement the enhanced security regulation version 2.0 with all its divisions within the entity to ensure a unified consistency with their mandates to enhance cyber resilience.

The ISR Version 2.0 is introduced in 13 improved domains and related controls in order to ensure the successful implementation of the enhanced ISR. These new set of domains include cloud security, governance of security risks, and communication management. DESC’s role draws upon conducting an annual ISR audit to verify its compliance.

DESC’S most prominent strategy domain is to achieve awareness through acquiring skills to manage cyber security risks for government, Individuals and private sectors thus creating a cyber smart society.


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