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For the Middle East

Aligned to the region's frameworks.

Third-party risk built for Gulf regulators and data laws.

Coverbase helps organizations across the Middle East assess and monitor vendors against SAMA, NCA, and regional data-protection requirements - continuously and audit-ready.

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 - with monitoring and audit trails that respect data-residency requirements and stand up to local regulators.

Key Capabilities

Built for Middle East requirements

1

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

NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls

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

3

PDPL & free-zone data protection

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

4

Residency-aware monitoring

Continuous monitoring and reporting designed to respect data-localization and residency constraints.

Benefits

Why Middle East teams choose Coverbase

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SAMA & NCA aligned

Vendor security mapped to regional controls.

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PDPL ready

Subprocessors and transfers mapped and tracked.

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Residency-aware

Monitoring that respects localization rules.

Concentration and nth-party visibility

Continuous coverage

Posture watched between assessments.

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Audit-ready

Evidence and trails for local regulators.

Proof Points

"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-aligned

Third-party cyber expectations met.

NCA controls mapped

Coverage and evidence tracked.

PDPL ready

Transfers and subprocessors mapped.

Residency-aware

Localization-conscious monitoring.

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