The Gulf Today, September 29, 2013
Plans to
be circulated among entities for executing information security
regulation
By a staff reporter
September 29, 2013
DUBAI: Dubai government’s Information Security Committee (ISC) has recently held
a meeting at His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Court,
presided over by Ahmad Bin Humaidan, ISC chairman, and representatives from the
ISC and Financial Audit Department (Fad).
The meeting reported on the current status of government entities as to
submitting their implementation plans to the ISC by the end of September 2013
and assessing their level of commitment.
The meeting also discussed the latest developments related to the implementation
of Dubai government’s Information Security Regulation, which is aimed at
managing the government information security environment and devising relevant
controls by developing an integrated strategy and a unified policy for
information security and Dubai government information systems for the purpose of
working in a secure and reliable environment for storing information.
The ISC
further shed light on the previous meetings held with its major strategic
partners in Dubai Government’s Human Resources Department, Fad and
Department of Finance, underlining the information security strategy that is
adopted by Dubai Government, in addition to highlighting their respective
performance indicators and assessing their contribution to the successful
implementation of the Information Security Regulation.