Municipality & Planning Department – Ajman is committed to safeguard its intellectual property, AM – ITD infrastructure and stakeholders’ information with regard to Information Technology Services provided by the Municipality. Municipality and Planning Department – Ajman (MPDA) intends to provide the highest level of protection possible to all aspects of information flowing through its AM – ITD infrastructure. The Information Security Policy is framed around:
Availability:
Which assures that the processes, policies, and controls are used to ensure, only authorized users have prompt access to information. This prevents accidental attempt to access information and systems by illegitimate users and helps legitimate users access information and systems as required by the system.
Integrity:
Which assures that adequate processes, policies, and controls will be used to ensure that information has not been altered in an unauthorized manner and that systems are free from unauthorized manipulation that will compromise accuracy, completeness, and reliability.
Confidentiality:
Which assures that adequate processes, policies, and controls are employed to protect the information of customers and the institution against unauthorized access or use.
Accountability:
Which assures that adequate processes, policies, and controls are in place that are necessary to trace actions to their source. Accountability directly supports non-repudiation, deterrence, intrusion prevention, security monitoring, recovery, and legal admissibility of records.
Assurance:
which assures that adequate processes, policies, and controls are used to develop confidence that technical and operational security measures work, as intended. Assurance levels are part of the systems design.
The Information Security Policy of MPDA is governed and implemented as per ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standards.
