On 14/09/2021 11:29, Paul Mansfield wrote:
Hi,
has anyone any (recent-ish) experience of setting up an office in
Dubai? In particular on state legislation on network usage, VPNs, VOIP
etc. Some years ago there was a big flurry of news about it being
illegal to use VPNs, but that might have really been about avoidance
paying for government owned telecomms services.
$JOB is setting up a remote office there and of course it's expensive.
But we need to consider the legal issues of things like inter-site
VPNs within Dubai and to other countries, and the law about VOIP (for
internal calls to other offices, and even whether things like Zoom or
Teams fall afoul).
any thoughts appreciated
thanks
Paul
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3650a670-b1b4-46c4-8b7c-170810cf53eb
I would consider that if you implement a VPN to Dubai, that you consider
implementing split-tunnelling. So that only "internal corporate traffic"
(legal) goes over the VPN, while Internet traffic goes via the normal
UAE based Internet Service Provider, which if it was to go over the VPN
would be potentially illegal, allowing their security services to
monitor for "misuse".
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Giles Coochey
