Most enterprises in the Middle East Region have a serious problem. Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated and more focused. The biggest weakness for most security programs is not technology. I’m a person.
In 2024, 83% of CISOs in the UAE believed the greatest cyber risk was human error. The UAE was the second-most-targeted country in the MENA region, accounting for 12% of all cyberattacks. The average cost of a cyber breach in the UAE is $2.9m. This is why human risk management is no longer a ‘nice-to-have’ but a business necessity.
Human risk management (HRM) quantifies, mitigates, and reports on security risks arising from human behavior. Unlike other training approaches, HRM considers employee actions as a constant risk variable. HRM monitors learning click rates, reporting patterns, and trends over time to enable the security team to optimize resources and achieve compliance with UAE Cybersecurity Council guidelines.
Phishing accounted for a significant share of cyber incidents in the UAE in 2024. Attackers impersonated Etisalat, DEWA, and Aramex. And now the attack vector has moved far beyond email, with attackers using QR codes, WhatsApp, SMS, vishing, and deepfakes. A tool that only performs email phishing exercises is not enough to protect your staff.
Enterprises in the UAE experience a wide variety of workforces. Multilingual support is crucial for successfully delivering training to non-English-speaking employees.
Threatcop is an AI people security management platform. It adopts the AAPE model (Assess, Aware, Protect, Empower) with one product app for each step, forming a comprehensive human risk management system for the enterprise.
Below is what all of them do, based on the platform itself.
TSAT tests employees with simulated realistic cyberattacks and rates their responses. The test covers five attack types: phishing, vishing, smishing, ransomware, and removable media risks.
Simulates each employee’s EVS based on simulation outputs over time. Security teams can easily personalize the simulation environment with company logos, a custom domain, and landing pages, and select the simulation language of their choice. Allows unlimited simulation cycles, with summaries of breach time, location-specific risk, and the average phishing risk rate.
78% of workers are aware that clicking on a malicious link could be perilous, yet still click. TSAT tests reality with real compliance, assigns a score, and measures progress.
TLMS provides cybersecurity awareness content driven by EVS scores reported by the TSAT. Customers have access to a repository of over 2,000 pieces in various formats, including videos, quizzes, infographics, comics, and game-based assessments. Content is refreshed monthly.
Training has to be directed, not generalized. Those who failed the phishing quiz receive phishing training, and those who smashed would receive other content. The TLMS offers detailed video analysis, automated campaigns, progress reports, and instant access to the content library.
TDMARC manages and enforces email authentication standards: DMARC, SPF, DKIM, MTA-STS, and BIMI. It stops fake or unverified messages from landing in employee mailboxes.
Highlights: Smart SPF allows you to create or modify your DNS records from the dashboard. Smart DMARC enforces your policy and provides visibility into your sent email. Smart BIMI allows you to showcase your verified brand logo in every inbox. Custom threat summaries tailored to your security team.
91% of cyber-attacks occur through email. 3.1 billion emails are sent daily from spoofed domains. Business Email Compromise attacks escalated dramatically in UAE businesses in 2024. The TDMARC bridges the chasm between user awareness training and email technical protection.
Turning employees into proactive threat reporters. Employees simply click report on a suspicious e-mail. TPIR will enable automated analysis and response.
The platform compares email addresses against a worldwide threat intelligence database, analyzes email headers to identify spoofing, scans attachments and links for malicious payloads, and applies keyword-based mail traffic control. It automatically produces incident records ready for compliance.
Many cyber attacks begin with a phishing email. Employees can be personally targeted by an increase of 14 malicious emails per year. TPIR shortens the time difference between an employee identifying themselves as at risk and the security team taking action. It creates an environment where employees are empowered to “tell it not to feel guilty”.
Threatcop operates in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and across MENA. The platform is multilingual to cater to different workforces. More than 5.7 million employees have been tested through simulations; more than 4.8 million employees have been trained; more than 12 billion emails have been analyzed through TDMARC.
‘Tellers’ are not enough to prevent phishing, ransomware, or other Social Engineering. Educated, aware, and empowered employees are.
If your UAE enterprise is still conducting annual training or your “fear, uncertainty, and doubt” phishing tests, the risk is greater than your dashboard indicates. Threatcop provides you with the data, training, domain protection, and incident response to ride out the human risk epidemic.
Schedule a demo with Threatcop to identify where your employees truly are in your business.
UAE enterprises face advanced phishing, business email compromise, and social engineering attacks. Many breaches occur because attackers exploit employees instead of technology. HRM helps organizations identify vulnerable users, reduce human error, and strengthen overall cyber resilience.
Traditional awareness training is periodic and compliance-driven. Human Risk Management is continuous and data-based. It tracks real employee actions, calculates risk scores, and delivers personalized training based on behavior rather than generic learning modules.
Threatcop provides an integrated Human Risk Management platform that includes security awareness training, adaptive learning management, enforcement of email authentication, and phishing incident response. The platform measures employee risk levels, delivers personalized training, and enables faster threat detection and response.
Traditional cybersecurity training is periodic and generic. It does not measure real employee behavior or evolving attack methods. Human Risk Management solves this by using continuous simulations, risk scoring, and personalized learning aligned with actual threats.
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