Dubai tech firm offers free consultancy to SMES

DUBAI: As work-from-home strategies become mandatory to combat the spread of COVID-19, employers and businesses need to be even more vigilant than usual, from the perspective of reducing the risk of data breaches and cybersecurity threats, some of which specifically target remote access strategies.

To address these concerns, Dubai’s Vision Tech Solutions DMCC, who specialise in IT infrastructure and support, are offering a free technology solution consultancy to small and medium enterprises (SMES), to enable them to move to remote working arrangements without compromising the security of their data and networks. Rajab Ali Virani, Managing Director of Vision Tech Solutions DMCC, says, “As the world goes into a lockdown mode to contain the pandemic, cybercriminals will not be curtailing their efforts to access valuable data during the outbreak. They will, in fact, take the advantage of the situation to launch malicious attacks, which can result in errors and outages”.

Customer-facing industries, such as airlines, hospitality and healthcare, are particularly in need of effective tech support and solutions. Educational institutions are another sizable sector that needs such support, to replace physical classrooms with online e-learning alternatives.

One of the other challenges of a workfrom-home policy is that employees are not being able to connect to appropriate servers that boost their productivity.