About Aman
The UAE’s digital safeguarding platform.
Built in the UAE, by VDR Tech Limited, for the schools that protect children and the families who raise them.
Why Aman exists
Schools shouldn’t have to choose between a foreign EdTech vendor and a homemade compliance binder.
UAE schools are subject to specific, detailed digital-safety obligations — ADEK’s School Digital Policy and the equivalent KHDA framework in Dubai. The vendors who can meet those obligations on paper were typically built somewhere else, for somewhere else. Their default categories don’t reflect local culture, their data leaves the country, and their compliance language is American or European.
Aman was built for here. Hosted here. ADEK section by section, KHDA principle by principle. Categories tuned to UAE values. Reports already shaped the way the regulator asks for them. And built around a single conviction: pedagogy, not policing. Aman notices, nudges, and tells the right adult. It supports the teacher’s instinct and the parent’s voice — it doesn’t replace either.
What Aman does
Six safeguards. One platform. Layered so nothing relies on a single line of defence.
Web Filter
Blocks millions of unsafe websites at the school network level — adult content, scams, gambling, malware. No app to install on each device. Included in every plan.
Aman Shield
The deeper layer. Catches malware in downloads, phishing pages on otherwise-trusted sites, ads and trackers, and apps that try to sneak past the filter. Protection follows the device home, on cellular, anywhere.
Web Categories & SafeSearch
Block by category, enforce SafeSearch on every search engine, apply different rules to different age groups (KG / Elementary / Middle / High / Staff).
SSL Inspection & Sandbox
Inspects the contents of encrypted connections so threats hiding inside HTTPS are caught. Unknown files run in an isolated environment first; only clean files reach the device.
AI Behaviour & Safeguarding
Builds a behavioural profile per student. Spots concerning patterns — escalation, withdrawal, signals of distress — that single-event filters miss. Real-time alerts, not just dashboards.
Compliance Monitoring and Reporting
Live monitoring dashboard, audit-ready logs, and one-click ADEK / KHDA reports. Every block, alert and incident timestamped. Included in every plan.
ADEK & KHDA Compliance
Built section by section against the regulator’s framework.
ADEK’s School Digital Policy v1.1 (September 2024) sets out fifteen technical controls in §6.1 alone, plus filtering, monitoring, incident-handling and reporting requirements across §4 and §7. Aman doesn’t just “align” with those — it implements them by name. KHDA’s digital wellbeing framework asks for the same controls in different words; one Aman stack satisfies both.
The map above isn’t exhaustive. ADEK §1.1 also requires schools to publish responsible-usage policies, data-protection plans, cybersecurity response plans and digital media policies — Aman provides templates for those alongside the technical controls. Talk to us for the full ADEK §6.1 control matrix.
BYOD coverage
Mixed-device classrooms, no-app-required protection.
Bring-Your-Own-Device classrooms can’t install software on every student phone. Aman starts at the network — every device is filtered the moment it joins, regardless of whether it’s an iPhone, Android, Chromebook or Windows laptop. Same policy, same compliance posture, every platform.
For schools that want protection to follow the child off-campus too, the Aman app routes traffic through the school’s Shield even when students go home. No MDM enrolment required, no proxy settings to manage. Schools see filtering events and safeguarding signals; private message content stays private unless safeguarding rules require otherwise.
Parent Bridge
A private window for parents — included in every plan.
Modern parents expect to see what apps and sites their children use during the school day. Parent Bridge gives them a private, curated view — activity, alerts, aggregate stats. No message content, no browsing history beyond what the school’s safeguarding rules already capture.
Schools issue invite codes per child. Parents enter the code, get access for fourteen days, re-enter when needed. Zero account admin on the school’s side. Trust-building visibility without surveillance overreach. Included on every Aman school plan, regardless of tier.
Architecture & data residency
One school. One stack. Your data stays here.
Per-school dedicated infrastructure
Every Aman school gets its own server, its own database, its own filtering policies, its own logs. No multi-tenant cache, no shared pipeline, no cross-school data exposure. ADEK §6.1.3.f calls this a “unified security edge architecture”; we deliver it per school.
UAE-hosted, UAE PDPL aligned
Data lives in the UAE. Aman complies with Federal Decree Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (PDPL) and the ADEK data-protection requirements in §7 — including the non-disclosure provisions for contractor data sharing.
Encryption end-to-end
Data in transit is encrypted; data at rest is encrypted; backups are vaulted and stored offline per ADEK §6.1.5.b. Multi-factor authentication on every administrator account per ADEK §6.1.1.a.
Schools bring their own SSO
Schools authenticate against their own Google or Microsoft tenant. We never ask staff to create new credentials, never bind their identity to ours. Email / password is always available as a fallback.
Principles
Five things we won’t compromise on.
- Pedagogy, not policing. Aman supports the teacher’s instinct and the parent’s voice. It doesn’t replace either.
- Transparent to children. Aman doesn’t try to hide. When something is blocked, the child sees a simple page that says so. Children who know they’re seen behave differently than children who feel watched in secret.
- Parent-private at home. The school never sees what your child does at home. Default is private, always.
- UAE-first, not UAE-translated. Built for here. Categories, language, regulator alignment, hosting. Not a port.
- Layered, not single-point. Six safeguards, not one big filter. Each catches what the others miss.
Company
VDR Tech Limited — Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Aman is a product of VDR Tech Limited, a UAE company building safeguarding technology for the region. Talk to us about a deployment for your school, a household subscription for your family, or a partnership for your network.