Compliance & certifications

Compliance is a feature, not a friction.

Every NAS engagement is designed to meet the regulations that govern it — PDPL, NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls, ISO 9001, and the sector-specific frameworks our clients live by.

PDPL aligned NCA-ECC ready ISO 9001 certified

Our approach

Built for regulation from day one.

Most projects bolt compliance on at the end. We design it in — so regulated workloads ship without rework.

Our delivery practice has compliance baked into every phase — discovery captures the regulatory baseline, design covers the controls, implementation evidences them, and operations sustains them after go-live.

We hold ISO 9001 certification on the NAS practice itself, with ISO 27001 certification on our roadmap targeted for early 2027. Our engineers carry the individual certifications relevant to the frameworks our clients are audited against.

8+
Frameworks covered

Regional and international standards built into our delivery.

100%
Regulated projects

Every regulated engagement ships with a compliance evidence pack.

30+
Certified specialists

Internal certifications across PDPL, NCA, ISO 9001, and adjacent frameworks.

0
Audit failures

Across every NAS-led regulated deployment to date.

Frameworks

The standards we build to.

A non-exhaustive list of the regulatory and quality frameworks we deliver, evidence, or directly hold certifications for.

Aligned

PDPL

Saudi Personal Data Protection Law

Lawful basis, data residency, retention, and subject-rights workflows mapped into every platform we deliver in the Kingdom.

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Ready

NCA-ECC

National Cybersecurity Authority — Essential Cybersecurity Controls

Full ECC control coverage — governance, defence, resilience, and third-party — implemented and evidenced for KSA government and regulated entities.

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Target Q1 2027

ISO 27001

Information Security Management System

We are working toward ISO 27001 certification, targeted for Q1 2027. Our internal information security management system is being aligned to the standard's controls today, ahead of external audit.

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Certified

ISO 9001

Quality Management System

Our delivery methodology, documentation, and continuous improvement process are externally certified to the ISO 9001 quality management standard.

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Aligned

SAMA Cybersecurity

Saudi Central Bank framework

Our banking and fintech engagements deliver against the SAMA Cybersecurity Framework and IT Governance Framework requirements end-to-end.

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On request

Sector-specific

HIPAA · PCI-DSS · NIST CSF

Healthcare, payments, and US-aligned cyber frameworks delivered on demand — typically alongside the regional regulations our clients face first.

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How we work

Compliance, delivered in four phases.

Every regulated engagement runs through the same four phases — captured, designed, evidenced, sustained.

01/Capture

We map the regulatory baseline.

Discovery covers the frameworks, controls, and audit obligations that apply to your platform — before architecture work begins.

02/Design

Controls live in the architecture.

Encryption, access, logging, residency, and retention are designed into the platform — not bolted on after a finding.

03/Evidence

Every control ships with proof.

Every regulated deployment produces an evidence pack — control mapping, test results, runbooks — ready for an external auditor.

04/Sustain

Compliance does not retire.

Managed services, periodic re-assessment, and regulatory-change tracking keep the platform compliant through every renewal cycle.

Need a compliance review?

Whether you are preparing for a PDPL audit, an NCA-ECC assessment, or just need a second-opinion review of your current controls — our team is available.

Certificates & policies

ISO certificates, privacy policy, and high-level control summaries available on request.

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Report a concern

Suspected privacy issue or security concern with a NAS-delivered platform? Our team responds within 24 hours.

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