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Compliance & Risk

Regulation doesn't need to be scary. It needs to be understandable.

The gap is usually evidence and embedding, not intent.

Compliance is meeting your regulatory and contractual obligations, and being able to prove it, to an auditor and in a real incident. The bar is rising in both of our regions, UK GDPR and the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, FCA operational resilience, UAE PDPL, DIFC and ADGM, and NCA ECC and SAMA in Saudi Arabia. If your obligations are growing faster than your capacity, we map what you are actually on the hook for and close the gaps in order.

Evidence, not intent.

Regulators test what runs, not what is written.

Multi-jurisdiction.

SAMA, DFSA, FCA, PDPL, one framework, not four projects.

Embedded, not bolted on.

Controls that survive an audit and a real incident.

How we help

Map the rules together.

So one control counts across several instead of being rebuilt each time. We get you audit-ready, stay in the room with the auditor, and keep it true between audits.

What it includes

What we do.

The specific work we are brought in for, each one senior-led, scoped to a result, and priced for the outcome, not the hours.

Regulatory Compliance and Audit Readiness

ISO 27001, 27701, 22301, 42001; SOC 2; PCI DSS; UK GDPR; PDPL, DIFC, ADGM; NCA ECC and SAMA, mapped together and made audit-ready.

Data Protection and Privacy

UK GDPR, UAE PDPL, DIFC and ADGM, privacy that holds up in practice, not just on paper.

Risk Management

Identifying, prioritising and treating enterprise and regulatory risk, mapped to your sector and obligations.

Governance and Control Frameworks

ISMS design, policies, roles, standards and control mapping, the governance that makes compliance repeatable.

AI Governance

Policy and controls for responsible AI use, ISO 42001 and the obligations coming with it.

Continuous Compliance

Keeping it true between audits, not just for the certificate.

Not sure which of these applies to you? Start with a conversation

Questions

The things people ask.

A certificate proves a point in time. Staying compliant between audits is the harder part, and it is where most findings come from: a control designed properly, then quietly stopped being followed once the pressure was on. We build the evidence to be produced as the control runs rather than assembled the week before.

Cyber Security is the protection. Compliance and Risk is proving and governing it. Most clients need both, and where they overlap we scope it once rather than twice, so you are not paying for the same assessment under two headings.

Yes. We map the UK and Gulf requirements together so one set of controls answers several of them, rather than running a separate programme for each jurisdiction. Where two genuinely conflict we tell you which one binds and why.

It depends where you are starting and how much of the evidence already exists. We assess first, then give you a prioritised plan with the gaps that would actually fail an audit at the top. Nobody benefits from an optimistic date agreed before anyone has looked.

Yes. UK GDPR in the United Kingdom, UAE PDPL, and the separate data protection laws that apply inside DIFC and ADGM. Where you operate across all of them we design one control set that satisfies each, rather than three running in parallel.

AI Governance covers responsible-AI policy and controls, including ISO 42001 and the obligations arriving under the EU AI Act. Most organisations are further behind on knowing where AI is already being used than on the policy itself, so we usually start there.

UK GDPR with the FCA and PRA rulebooks in the United Kingdom. DORA and NIS2 where operational resilience has moved from good practice to a supervisory question. SAMA and the NCA in Saudi Arabia. UAE PDPL, with DIFC and ADGM where the free zones apply. ISO 27001 and PCI DSS where certification or scheme rules are in scope. The cyber control side of this sits with Cyber Security.

Getting started

How we get started.

No discovery-call carousel, no 40-page proposal. Three moves, and you know exactly what you are funding.

Step 01

Map the obligations.

Every set of rules you face, translated into what actually applies to you.

Step 02

Close the highest-risk gaps.

Cross-border flows, third parties and special-category data first.

Step 03

Make it run.

Retention, access and response on a cadence, with evidence as you go.

Obligations growing faster than your capacity?

Let's talk. We'll map what applies to you, and what proportionate looks like.

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