About Us

eHosting DataFort is a leading provider of IT Outsourcing and Consulting Services, and a fully owned subsidiary of TECOM Investments (member of Dubai Holding).

Dubai Holding realizes the vision of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice-President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, to consolidate a group of life-improving industries in the fields of health, technology, finance, real estate, research, education, humanitarianism, tourism, energy, communication, industry, biotechnology and hospitality.

With world-class data centers, state-of-the-art infrastructure and 24/7 managed operations, eHosting DataFort has a wide network of technology and channel partners based in GCC, MENA, Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region. It delivers its operations through highly reliable and scalable infrastructures based on international standards and best practices including ITIL, ISO 27001, ISO 20000, BS25999.

Customers include Emirates Airlines, Dubai Financial Market, His Highness Rulers Court, DUBAL, du, Dubai E-Government, Dubai TV, Standard Chartered Bank, and the world’s largest steel company Arcelor Mittal.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is widely defined as an obligation to consider the interests of customers, employees, shareholders, communities and ecological considerations in all aspects of the corporation’s operations. In addition to being closely linked with the principles of Sustainable Development.

Since its inception, eHosting DataFort, sought to find means and ways of participating in various drives dedicated to noble causes and environmental issues. From offering internships to graduate students, providing summer job programmes to people with special needs, sustainable development to various Recycle, Reduce and Reuse campaigns, eHosting DataFort has always been proactively involved in the CSR activities of TECOM Investments.

Marifaty: A social duty

In an effort to expand eHosting DataFort’s CSR activities a new CSR initiative is launched known as ‘Marifaty’.
The initiative focuses mainly on imparting Information security awareness to the local community including Schools and Government/Public sectors for safe computing practices.

Marifaty: Objectives

• Create security awareness among different levels of society
• Educate the public with a certain level of IT knowledge

Marifaty: Theme

Marifaty aims to spread awareness about the growth in computer security risks that threaten to slow down the rise of ecommerce and online transactions.

The sessions cover basics of Internet security and up-to-date anti-virus signatures, patch operating systems and firewalls to secure and protect transactions of government sectors.

Marifaty includes means and ways of protecting personal information, password usage and taking counter-fraud measures. The awareness sessions also tackle spyware and adware risks.

‘Marifaty is one of our best initiatives and is aimed at imparting Security based education related to governments and other institutions. Our efforts will simply raise awareness amongst the public to the hazards of cyber crimes’: Mohamed Fouz (CEO - eHosting DataFort)

eHosting DataFort, through Marifaty, will ensure that all cybercrimes linked to a spam or a virus are clearly identified. Governments Sectors, High school students and many private sectors will benefit as they will be exposed to the latest measures in Information security and Data protection.

Duration of Sessions

3 hours