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The Kingdom’s Vision 2030 is accelerating digital transformation across government, finance, energy, and telecom. With that effort comes 18 cybersecurity frameworks from NCA, SAMA, CMA, and CST, each with distinct controls, overlapping scopes, and converging deadlines.
Regulators no longer accept point-in-time audits. They expect continuous operational effectiveness, measurable resilience, and audit-ready governance.
Organizations that start with foundational frameworks and layer specialized mandates on top reduce duplication, move faster, and turn compliance into competitive advantage.
Which two frameworks are the baseline for nearly every sector, and how mastering them first creates a “compliance multiplier”' across specialized regulationsHow the frameworks map to four critical industries: Government Agencies, Financial Services, Oil & Gas, and TelecomWhich frameworks are already enforceable and where compliance gaps create the most immediate exposureWhy cyber resilience, threat intelligence, and fraud prevention must operate as one coordinated program rather than separate workstreamsSix strategic recommendations to convert compliance obligations into competitive advantage under Vision 2030The research maps Group-IB’s full portfolio against every framework in scope. Three areas show the strongest alignment:
SAMA Financial Entities Ethical Red Teaming (FEER): Group-IB’s Red Teaming service directly executes the intelligence-led attack simulations FEER mandates, covering scenario development, execution on live production systems, and structured reporting to SAMA.
SAMA Cyber Threat Intelligence Principles (CTI): Group-IB combines its Threat Intelligence platform with Threat Intelligence Program Development and Threat Landscape services to cover the full intelligence lifecycle the CTI Principles require: collection, analysis, dissemination, and sharing.
SAMA Counter Fraud Framework / Fundamental Requirements for Fintechs Group-IB Fraud Protection and Anti-Fraud Program Development address the vast majority of technical and procedural controls mandated for banks and fintechs, including real-time detection, bot protection, and fraud risk governance.
Build your compliance roadmap now. Connect with Group-IB’s KSA compliance and security experts for a framework gap analysis tailored to your sector and regulatory obligations.
We see the full picture of the evolving cyber threat landscape thanks to unique tools for monitoring the infrastructure used by cybercriminals and data from battlefields:
