Gulf Data Protection
Anchored on Saudi PDPL · Certify against: Saudi PDPL, Qatar PDPPL · Incorporates UAE PDPL, Bahrain PDPL, Qatar National Data Policy, QCB Data Regulation, Saudi NDMO
One data protection programme for organisations operating across the Gulf, anchored on Saudi PDPL with Qatar PDPPL as a certification profile and the other GCC regimes mapped in.
The standard tells you what is required; this framework tells you how to do it, whether you've done enough to certify, and how to keep getting better.
Two editions
Both editions come from the same framework and the same version. Professional adds what you need to implement it.
For a team that wants the structure and will run it itself.
- The framework workbook: Principles → Capabilities → Requirements → Controls, with implementation guidance on every control
- Maturity criteria 0–5 and a certification threshold on every control
- The framework as a designed PDF, and a two-page summary
- Source mapping and a clause-coverage map for every certification profile
- README, changelog and the Organisation Licence
For a team implementing the framework, or loading it into APEX.
- Everything in Core
- Governance Playbook (PDF and Word): how to run the framework as a programme, with suggested RACI and delivery waves
- Risk Library, linked to the controls that treat each risk
- Cross-framework mapping
- Templates: policy, assessment questionnaire, evidence register, RACI matrix and programme charter
- APEX import file, to load the framework into the APEX Governance Platform
A free sample, the summary and the first capability, will be here when the framework is published. The Professional edition includes the APEX import file, so the framework loads straight into the APEX Governance Platform. Framework purchases made within 12 months are credited in full against your first year of APEX Business or Enterprise.
Standards
- Primary standard
- Certification profile
- Secondary standards
Standards are referenced by clause, not reproduced. Every standard we trace.
Profiles
Every standard Gulf Data Protection covers is listed in Standards we trace.
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