IT Audit — Dubai & UAE
A comprehensive, independent audit of your IT infrastructure and security posture — uncovering hidden vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and performance bottlenecks before they become costly problems.
The Business Case
Ignorance is the biggest IT risk. Most security incidents and outages are preventable — if you know where the gaps are.
Scope of Audit
Our audit covers every layer of your technology stack — from physical hardware to cloud services and human processes.
Physical hosts, virtual machines and the hypervisor layer, on-premises and in Azure or AWS.
SAN, NAS, direct-attached and cloud storage, and where your business data actually lives.
From the Etisalat or du hand-off to the access point on the ceiling.
The controls that decide whether a phishing email becomes a ransomware incident.
Every laptop, desktop, mobile device and printer that touches your data.
Whether you could actually recover, how fast, and how much you would lose.
What you are paying for, what you are entitled to and what is written down.
Controls benchmarked against local UAE regulations and internationally recognised security standards.
Where the environment is slow, over-provisioned or reaching the end of its useful life.
How it works
Discovery is largely non-intrusive and scheduled around your working hours; we need one point of contact and read-only access.
Agree the sites, systems and frameworks in scope, collect existing documentation and set up read-only access. Half a day, usually remote.
Automated discovery of servers, endpoints, network and cloud tenants, configuration exports, a site walk-through and interviews with IT and business owners. Two to five days.
Every finding is rated for likelihood and impact, mapped to the relevant control in NESA, ISO 27001 or PCI-DSS, and costed for remediation.
Executive presentation to leadership, technical walkthrough with your IT team or provider, and a prioritised roadmap with budget estimates.
Typical duration is five working days for a single site of up to 100 users and ten for multi-site or 250+ user environments.
Deliverables
Every audit engagement concludes with a comprehensive set of documents designed to inform your leadership, guide your IT team, and satisfy your compliance requirements.
Engagement models
Scope scales with the size of your environment and how much of the fix you want us to own.
Option
Single site, up to 100 users
Most popular
Multi-site, cloud tenants or a compliance driver
Option
When you want the gaps closed, not just listed
Audit fees are fixed once scope is agreed and quoted in AED. Remediation work is scoped from the findings and quoted separately.
Technologies
Certified engineers — Microsoft, Cisco, Fortinet, and ISO 27001 qualified — assess the platforms most UAE businesses run.
Windows Server, Microsoft 365 and Azure · VMware vSphere and Hyper-V · Cisco, Meraki and FortiGate · HPE ProLiant, Aruba and Lenovo ThinkSystem · Veeam, Acronis and Commvault backup · AWS
FAQ
No. Discovery uses read-only access, configuration exports and passive scanning, with the site walk-through and interviews scheduled around your hours. The only activity touching production is the backup restore test, performed to an isolated location. Nothing is changed during the audit.
UAE NESA (National Electronic Security Authority), ISO 27001 (Information Security Management), GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Standards), HIPAA (Healthcare Data Protection) and ADSIC (Abu Dhabi Systems & Info Centre), plus the UAE PDPL and DIFC or ADGM data protection rules for free-zone entities. Each finding is mapped to the relevant control so the gap analysis is usable by your auditor.
Read-only administrator access to servers, the hypervisor, firewall, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, the backup console and any cloud subscriptions, plus a contact for the site walk-through. Credentials are issued for the audit period, held in our vault under our ISO 27001 controls and removed at the end.
An audit reviews how the environment is built, configured, documented and protected. A penetration test attempts to break in. The audit tells you where you are weak and what it costs to fix; the pen test proves what an attacker could actually do. We offer both and often run them back to back.
Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons we are engaged. We work professionally with your incumbent, request access and documentation through you and report factually. Vendor-neutral assessments — we recommend what is right for you, not what earns us commission.
10+ years of IT audit experience across UAE enterprises and SMBs; certified engineers — Microsoft, Cisco, Fortinet, and ISO 27001 qualified; deep knowledge of the UAE regulatory landscape including NESA and ADSIC; detailed, board-ready audit reports with prioritised remediation roadmaps; and the trust of 200+ customers across finance, healthcare, real estate, and government sectors.
A 30-day follow-up consultation is included. You can remediate in-house, ask your existing provider to work through the roadmap, or engage us on the audit + remediation tier with a re-audit at the end to evidence the improvement.
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Every day without an audit is a day your business operates on assumptions. One vulnerability exploited, one compliance fine, or one outage can cost far more than an audit ever will. Let Binary Minds give you the complete picture — and the roadmap to act on it.
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