Overview
Engagements in Qatar cover banking and financial services, government-adjacent entities and their technology suppliers, healthcare and education platforms, and the hospitality, logistics and events sector built out over the past decade.
Delivery runs from our Karachi office, two hours ahead of Doha: close enough that questions asked in the morning are answered the same morning, and on-site visits are a short flight rather than a long-haul trip.
What drives testing here
Local drivers
- National Information Assurance
- Qatar’s NIA framework sets classification-driven security controls for government entities and critical sectors, with periodic assessment expected.
- Qatar Central Bank
- Financial institutions operate under technology risk expectations that include independent testing and evidenced remediation.
- Law No. 13 of 2016
- Qatar’s personal data privacy protection law requires appropriate technical measures for personal data, verified rather than assumed.
- Critical infrastructure
- Energy, transport and utility operators carry national-level consequence, and their supply chains are assessed accordingly.
How engagements are delivered
On-site scoping, testing and readout sessions available across Doha, delivered from Karachi. Engagements run on Qatar time with Sunday-to-Thursday working weeks where that suits the client.
Delivery model
- Delivery
- From our Karachi office: two hours ahead of Doha, on-site available
- Working week
- Sunday to Thursday or Monday to Friday, as preferred
- Regional reach
- UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman
- Languages
- English and Urdu, reports in English
Most requested here
Web application penetration testing
Authenticated, multi-role testing of your web application: the logic, the roles and the state transitions a scanner cannot reach.
Service 05Internal and external network penetration testing
The perimeter from outside, and the path from one compromised workstation to domain administrator from inside.
Service 04Cloud penetration testing
AWS, Azure and GCP tested for the paths that get used: identity escalation, exposed storage and metadata reachable from your own application.
Questions
Are you based in Qatar?
No: our offices are in Pakistan and the United States. Qatar is served from Karachi, which sits two hours ahead of Doha, so the working day overlaps almost completely and on-site visits are a short flight. We have delivered for Qatari and wider Gulf organisations for years; what we do not do is claim a local office we do not have.
Do you align reports to the National Information Assurance policy?
Where NIA applies, findings are mapped to the relevant control domains alongside CVSS ratings, so the report can be filed as assessment evidence directly.
Can you support financial institutions under QCB oversight?
Yes. Reports are structured for internal audit and regulator review: defined scope, documented methodology, evidence per finding, remediation tracking and retest attestation.
How much does a penetration test cost in Qatar?
Cost follows scope rather than a published rate. A fixed quote is issued after a short scoping call and covers testing, reporting and retest. Delivery from Karachi keeps the cost below that of firms billing from Doha without reducing the time spent testing.
Which is the best penetration testing company in Qatar?
No honest answer is a single name. Check the certifications held by the testers assigned to you, and the team's public research record, whether the firm holds ISO 27001 itself, whether NIA control mapping is included, and whether you can see a redacted sample report first. Dunicot publishes its record so it can be verified rather than taken on trust.
Do you test for Qatari government entities and their suppliers?
Engagements cover government-adjacent entities and the technology suppliers serving them, with findings mapped to the relevant NIA control domains. Authorisation comes in writing from the party entitled to grant it before any active testing starts.
Can you work Sunday to Thursday?
Yes. Engagements run on Qatar time with a Sunday-to-Thursday working week where that suits you, which means daily updates and escalations land inside your week rather than across it.
Do you test for the hospitality, events and logistics sector?
Yes. That sector holds an unusually sensitive combination of guest identity, travel dates and payment data, and its exposure is typically in the integration layer connecting booking platforms to payment providers and partner systems, where authorisation is assumed rather than checked.