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ADSIC and Microsoft organize information security workshop

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Center (ADSIC), recently held a three day workshop with Microsoft at the Shangri-La Hotel – Abu Dhabi. The workshops was attended by IT management, CIOs, CISOs, System Administrators, Identity and Security Engineers from more than 35 government entities with the aim of building capacity and increasing awareness on ...

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Holidaymakers put themselves at risk with no travel insurance

  Abu Dhabi / WAM UAE holidaymakers are putting themselves at increased risk of facing serious financial repercussions by not taking measures to adequately cover themselves in the event of a travel emergency, experts warned. Describing community awareness about travel insurance in the UAE as “probably among the lowest in global markets”, Phil Ashkuri, Head of General Insurance at Nexus Group, ...

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The connection between work and dignity

  Economists like to tell a possibly apocryphal story about Milton Friedman. The prophet of free markets, visiting an Asian country in the 1960s, witnessed a public-works project that had people making a road with picks and shovels. When he asked why they didn’t use earth-moving machines instead, a local official responded that the goal was to provide people with ...

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