Frameworks · Middle East
UAE IA / NESA compliance, run as a living system
The UAE Information Assurance Regulation, formerly the NESA standards, defines the control set for protecting critical information infrastructure in the UAE, tiered by criticality.
Who it applies to
UAE government entities and operators of critical infrastructure, and increasingly their suppliers and service providers.
What it demands
Governance
IA strategy, roles, and compliance reporting to the regulator.
Protection
Asset management, access control, cryptography and network security.
Detection & response
Monitoring, incident management and reporting obligations.
Continuity
Business continuity and disaster recovery controls.
How Compli-Once runs it
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The IA control set modelled as a first-class framework beside ISO 27001 and India's mandates.
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Crosswalk quantifies what your existing programme already satisfies, control by control.
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Incident and continuity obligations run on the same workflow and evidence machinery.
What you already satisfy
UAE IA / NESA overlaps with frameworks you may already run. The crosswalk quantifies existing coverage on day one, before you plan a single task.
Implement once, satisfy many
In a representative demonstration environment, 61% of a newly adopted regulatory framework was already satisfied by the existing ISO 27001 programme.
Illustrative, computed live per tenant in the platform.
Frequently asked questions
What is the UAE IA Regulation?
The UAE Information Assurance Regulation, formerly known as the NESA standards, is the national control set for protecting critical information infrastructure in the UAE, applied in tiers by entity criticality.
How does IA overlap with ISO 27001?
Substantially. The crosswalk maps equivalences, so an existing ISO 27001 programme satisfies a large share of IA controls on day one, with the remainder as a gap list.
Is DIFC or DFSA content available?
DIFC and DFSA obligations are on the framework roadmap. Custom frameworks can be authored with full tooling parity in the meantime.
Can one tenant run India and UAE mandates together?
Yes. That is the point of the single data model: CSCRF, RBI, DPDP and UAE IA share controls and evidence wherever they overlap.