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Aligned to the region's frameworks.

Third-party risk built for Middle East regulators and data laws.

Coverbase helps organizations across the Middle East assess and monitor vendors against SAMA, NCA, and regional data-protection requirements, with continuous monitoring and an audit trail.
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01 · The challenge

Middle Eastern regulators have moved quickly and prescriptively.

Saudi Arabia's SAMA Cyber Security Framework and the NCA's Essential Cybersecurity Controls set detailed third-party expectations, while new data-protection laws (Saudi PDPL, the UAE PDPL, and free-zone regimes in DIFC and ADGM) impose data-residency and transfer duties. Meeting them with manual processes is slow and brittle.

Coverbase runs a continuous third-party risk program mapped to these frameworks. Assess vendor security against SAMA and NCA control expectations, map subprocessors and cross-border transfers for PDPL and free-zone regimes, and quantify concentration and resilience risk. Monitoring and audit trails support data-residency requirements, subject to your deployment.

02 · Key capabilities

Built for Middle East requirements

  1. 01

    SAMA Cyber Security Framework

    Assess and monitor vendors against SAMA's third-party cyber expectations, with evidence mapped to your control sets and a full audit trail.
  2. 02

    NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls

    Map controls to the NCA's requirements and track coverage and evidence health across your vendor portfolio.
  3. 03

    PDPL and free-zone data protection

    Map subprocessors and cross-border transfers for Saudi and UAE PDPL, DIFC, and ADGM, and track data-processing obligations.
  4. 04

    Data-residency support

    Continuous monitoring and reporting that support data-localization and residency requirements, subject to your deployment.
03 · Benefits

Why Middle East teams choose Coverbase

  1. SAMA and NCA mapping

    Vendor security mapped to regional controls.

  2. PDPL mapping

    Subprocessors and transfers mapped and tracked.

  3. Data-residency support

    Configurable to your localization requirements.

  4. Continuous coverage

    Posture watched between assessments.

  5. Audit trail

    Evidence and trails for local regulators.
04 · At a glance
“SAMA and the NCA expect detailed, evidenced third-party controls, and our data has to stay in-region. Coverbase mapped our vendor program to both frameworks and kept the monitoring continuous, so regulator reviews stopped being a fire drill.”
Head of Information Security, Gulf Banking Group

  • SAMA framework

    Vendor evidence mapped to SAMA expectations.

  • NCA controls mapped

    Coverage and evidence tracked.

  • PDPL mapping

    Transfers and subprocessors mapped.

  • Data-residency support

    Subject to your deployment.

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