Sharjah24: The Sharjah City Municipality (SCM) revealed the launch of “Ammen” a safe platform as a smart awareness platform in information security, which aims to increase employees' awareness of everything related to cybersecurity and protect against any attempts to penetrate private or work devices in a way that preserves all information and data on the workflow, and protects institutions from cyber attacks.

The Municipality has provided all its employees with a registration mechanism on the platform. It will also organise continuous awareness workshops in this regard.

Commenting on this, Thabet Salem Al Tarifi, Director-General of the Sharjah City confirmed that the platform comes in line with the municipality’s strategic plan to develop and activate an integrated and advanced digital and institutional system.

For her part, Reem Abdullah Al Raeisi, Director of the Information Technology Department, stated that the aim of launching the platform is to raise the level of awareness of Sharjah Municipality employees on best practices in the field of information security.

Al Raeisi indicated that the platform will be continuously provided with important and valuable awareness-raising topics , aiming to enhance the spread of the information security awareness culture.