Defence & Critical Infrastructure
National-security expectations. Continuous readiness.
Suppliers to defence and operators of critical infrastructure carry the country’s most serious security expectations: the UAE Information Assurance standard, critical-information-infrastructure obligations, and supply-chain scrutiny that tightens after every disclosed campaign. We keep you continuously ready, not annually surprised.
We are the GRC and compliance experts who pull it all together and make security look easy, so you can focus on actual security.
sector-wide campaigns disclosed by the Cybersecurity Council in 2026 alone, each one detected and repelled
Source: UAE Cybersecurity Council, via Gulf News
daily attack attempts against the UAE reported in 2026
Source: UAE Cybersecurity Council, via Khaleej Times
of UAE incidents target government, the most-attacked sector
Source: CPX State of the UAE Cybersecurity Report 2025
Why it feels harder than it should
Several rulebooks, one business.
The August 2026 campaign against aviation, energy and education, detected and stopped by national teams, settled any doubt about whether the region is targeted. It was the third sector-wide campaign disclosed by the Cybersecurity Council in 2026. For suppliers the consequence is practical: security questionnaires tighten, the UAE IA standard’s controls get asked about by name, and a subcontractor’s weakness is treated as the prime’s problem.
What this looks like in practice
A logistics firm supplying an energy operator does not need to be critical infrastructure itself to feel these rules: the operator’s CIIP duties flow down through its supply chain, and the next questionnaire asks for evidence, not intentions. Firms with a maintained control set answer in a day. Firms without one go quiet, and primes notice who goes quiet.
What actually hits critical sectors
Public-sector organizations show the highest vulnerability-exploitation rate Verizon measured, 40% of breach entries, and a third of breaches in that world carry espionage motives. In EMEA espionage motivates 36% of breaches, ten times the North American rate. Attackers here want access and information, not only money, and the cheapest way to a hard target is a soft supplier.
of EMEA breaches carry an espionage motive
Source: Verizon 2026 DBIR
sector-wide campaigns disclosed and repelled by the Cybersecurity Council in 2026
Source: UAE Cybersecurity Council
How they get in
Source: Verizon 2026 DBIR, Public Administration breach entry points
The authorities that reach this sector.
TDRA / aeCERT
Telecommunications & Digital Government Regulatory Authority
Regulates telecom and digital government; operates aeCERT, the national computer emergency response team, and the UAE Information Assurance standard for critical sectors.
CSC
UAE Cybersecurity Council
Sets national cybersecurity strategy and issues public threat guidance for every organization in the Emirates.
Your regulators, sector by sector
Find yourself in the list.
We cover every name on it.
Defence suppliers and subcontractors
- Focus
- UAE IA alignment, supply-chain security evidence, personnel and data handling discipline, incident readiness.
- Standards
- UAE Information Assurance standard; contractual flow-downs.
- Certification
- Program evidence expected by primes and authorities.
- Rhythm
- Continuous, with per-contract assessments.
Critical-infrastructure operators
- Focus
- CIIP obligations, OT and IT segmentation, national incident coordination, resilience testing.
- Standards
- UAE IA for critical sectors; sector authority requirements.
- Certification
- Authority assessments apply.
- Rhythm
- Periodic assessment and audit under the standard.
These are summary profiles. Behind each one sits a complete obligation map, control set and calendar that AccuSights maintains for clients. Seeing yours is what a demo is for.
One program instead
How we make it one control set.
AccuSights maintains your control set against the UAE IA standard continuously, keeps the evidence current, and answers the questionnaires with documents instead of scrambles. The read-only compliance agent gives you and your primes the same truthful picture of your posture, without handing anyone control of your systems.
Cross-mapped controls
One control, mapped to every regulator on this page that it satisfies.
Evidence collected once
Reused across every emirate, free zone, and framework that applies to you.
Always audit-ready
A read-only compliance agent keeps the picture current. You keep the keys.
Global breach figures: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, the 19th edition, analyzing more than 22,000 confirmed breaches across 145 countries. Regional figures: EMEA section of the same report, and UAE public statistics as cited.
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See your obligations as one program.
Thirty minutes with an engineer who works in UAE regulation. You leave knowing which rules apply to you, where the gaps are, and how one control set covers them.