Security

Remote support is safe when you start it, with a tool from a page you reached yourself and a provider you verified. Here is how attended sessions and RMM agents work, the scam pattern, and how to end access.

Many small offices in the UAE need 12 basic network checks done before they need a bigger firewall. Here is what you can do yourself, how often, and what to hand to a specialist.

What a DDoS attack on a UAE business website actually looks like, the three attack types, what network and server-level protection already covers, when a dedicated filtering layer is worth it, and what to do in the first ten minutes.

A practical guide to two-factor authentication for a UAE business: the accounts to protect first, authenticator apps versus SMS versus passkeys, rolling it out across a team, and the five mistakes that quietly cancel the protection.

A free certificate gives the same encryption as the most expensive one. What money actually buys, the three validation levels, wildcard scope, and the configuration mistakes that break HTTPS with a perfectly valid certificate.

A contact form makes you a collector of personal data. What the UAE Personal Data Protection Law asks of an ordinary company website, what to change on the site itself, and where the free zones differ.

A backup is not a backup until it has been restored. The three numbers that define your strategy, the retention arithmetic that catches people out, why backups fail silently, and how to build a recovery plan you can actually use.

Contain, preserve, find the entry point, eradicate, rotate, recover — in that order. Why restoring a backup first is the wrong move, and the mistakes that turn a contained incident into a recurring one.

WordPress 7.1 is the current release, and old branches still get security patches — which is why “up to date” and “secure” are not the same thing. What 7.1 requires, where sites actually get broken, and the hardening no version number does for you.