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Cybersecurity Compliance Services

Meet the standards your clients and regulators expect, ISO 27001, PDPL, SOC 2, PCI DSS, with controls that actually hold up at audit, not just on paper.

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Cybersecurity Compliance: Controls That Run, Not Just Policies That Exist

Compliance in the UAE has got more complicated. ISO 27001 is increasingly expected by enterprise clients and procurement teams. UAE PDPL has added data protection obligations across almost every sector. SOC 2 is now a standard requirement for SaaS and cloud providers working with international customers. PCI DSS governs every payment card environment. For most organisations, the question is not which standard applies. It is how to manage several at once without running parallel programmes for each.

The compliance failure we see most often is not a policy gap. It is an operationalisation gap. Controls are written on paper but not running in practice. Evidence is collected inconsistently. Auditors arrive and the team is scrambling to fill holes that were visible months earlier. The standards are not the problem; the operating discipline around them is. That is where most compliance work actually needs to happen.

IP Care helps UAE organisations align to ISO 27001, UAE PDPL, SOC 2, PCI DSS and sector-specific frameworks through hands-on implementation, not template delivery. For NESA / UAE Information Assurance Standards compliance specifically, which applies to UAE critical-sector entities and carries its own audit process and domain structure, see our dedicated NESA Compliance page. If you need NESA alongside another framework, we run those as an integrated programme.

Compliance standards and deliverables covered, ISO 27001, PDPL, SOC 2, PCI DSS

WHAT WE COVER

Standards & Deliverables

From the first gap assessment to the audit itself. The standards we work across and the deliverables we produce at each stage.

ISO 27001, gap assessment, control implementation and certification readiness
UAE Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), data inventory, privacy controls and subject rights
SOC 2 Type I and Type II, trust service criteria mapping and evidence collection
PCI DSS, cardholder data environment scoping and QSA-ready evidence
sector-specific frameworks for healthcare and Dubai government entities
Gap assessment and prioritised remediation roadmap across any framework
Policy authoring, information security, data protection, acceptable use, third-party
Evidence packs and pre-audit preparation so the formal audit is the routine one

Capabilities

What's Included

ISO 27001 Implementation

Gap assessment, control implementation, policy authoring and audit preparation for ISO 27001, from your first assessment through to certification readiness and annual surveillance.

UAE PDPL Data Protection

Align to the UAE Personal Data Protection Law, data inventory, lawful-basis mapping, privacy notices, subject-rights procedures and the technical controls that back them up.

SOC 2 Readiness

Prepare for SOC 2 Type I and Type II audits, trust service criteria mapping, control design, evidence collection and readiness assessment before the auditor arrives.

PCI DSS Compliance

Scope your cardholder data environment, close control gaps against the PCI DSS requirements and prepare evidence for your QSA assessment.

Gap Assessment & Remediation

Honest gap analysis against whichever framework applies, control-by-control scoring, prioritised remediation roadmap and hands-on implementation to close the gaps.

Policy, Controls & Audit Support

Policy authoring, control narratives, evidence packs and audit preparation, so the auditor sees a programme that runs, not one assembled the week before.

Why IP Care

What Sets Us Apart

Operating in the UAE since 2003

Two decades of UAE delivery across banking, healthcare, government-adjacent and enterprise. The pattern recognition across overlapping standards compounds across engagements.

PDPL-aware from the start

UAE Personal Data Protection Law is mapped into every relevant engagement, not treated as a separate workstream or an afterthought before audit.

Hands-on implementation, not reports

We implement controls alongside your team rather than delivering a gap report and stepping back. The audit pass is the deliverable, not the documentation.

Multiple frameworks, one programme

ISO 27001, PDPL, SOC 2 and PCI DSS share substantial control coverage. We run integrated programmes where it makes sense. You do not pay for the same control twice.

Backed by Cyber Advisory

Where compliance intersects with security architecture, cloud posture, identity, Zero Trust. Our Cyber Advisory practice covers the strategy layer.

Our Delivery Approach

How We Deliver

A proven, repeatable approach, used on every engagement.

Assess

Gap analysis against the relevant standard, control-by-control scoring, applicability mapping and a prioritised view of what to fix first.

Remediate

Hands-on control implementation, technical and procedural, closing priority gaps with your team, not delivering a report for them to action alone.

Document & Policy

Policy framework, control narratives and an evidence repository built to what auditors actually look for, not template documents filled in overnight.

Audit Support

Pre-audit mock assessment, evidence presentation preparation and on-site support during the formal audit so nothing is a surprise.

Maintain

Ongoing control operation, quarterly evidence refresh and readiness for annual surveillance or recertification cycles.

UAE Regulations

The Frameworks We Deliver Against

Every engagement is scoped with the rules your organisation answers to. These are the frameworks we assess, remediate and prepare evidence for.

NESA / UAE Information Assurance Standards

Mandatory for critical-sector entities in energy, government, banking, telecom, transport and healthcare. NESA was absorbed into the UAE Signals Intelligence Agency in 2020, but the standards are unchanged and still audited. See our NESA compliance programme.

UAE Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL)

Governs how personal data is collected, stored and accessed. In practice it drives access controls, data classification, consent records and keeping data, including backups, inside the UAE where required.

ISO 27001

The international information security standard many UAE clients and partners ask for. A large share of its Annex A controls map to NESA requirements, so the two programmes can share evidence. See NESA vs ISO 27001.

PCI DSS

Required wherever card payments are stored, processed or transmitted, common in retail, hospitality and e-commerce. We run the gap assessment, remediation and audit preparation as part of our compliance services.

Buyer's Guide

How to Choose a Cybersecurity Services Provider in the UAE

Most UAE businesses we talk to are in the same position: security bolted on after the fact, default configurations never hardened, nobody watching overnight and no written incident response plan. These are the questions that separate a provider who will fix that from one who will sell you another tool.

Start with what you have to comply with

If you operate in a critical sector, NESA / UAE IAS applies whether or not you have started. If you hold personal data, the UAE PDPL applies. Your clients may also ask for ISO 27001 or PCI DSS. A good provider scopes the work around these from day one, rather than treating compliance as a separate project at the end. Our compliance services cover the gap assessment, remediation and audit evidence.

Ask who is watching at 2 am

24/7 monitoring means different things to different providers. Ask who triages the alerts, where they are based, what gets escalated and how fast. Ours is defined and documented before you go live: the scope of what is monitored, the alert thresholds and the escalation procedures.

Ask what happens when something gets through

No control stops everything. What matters is how quickly an incident is contained and how thoroughly it is understood afterwards. An incident response retainer means the response starts immediately instead of from a standing start. Our session hijacking case study shows what that looks like in practice, including an attack that bypassed both the password and MFA.

Fix identity first

Microsoft has reported that multi-factor authentication alone blocks more than 99% of account-compromise attempts, which is why identity hardening is one of the first things we fix: enforced MFA, Conditional Access and clean admin accounts in Microsoft Entra ID. It is the cheapest large reduction in risk most organisations can make.

Know whether you need services or advisory

Cybersecurity services defend and operate your environment day to day. Advisory designs where it should go: Zero Trust architecture, SASE, and board-level governance. Many organisations need both, and it helps when the same company can do both. See our cybersecurity advisory practice.

Local support in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

We are headquartered in Abu Dhabi and send engineers to client sites across the UAE when a job needs hands on site. See cybersecurity services in Dubai and cybersecurity services in Abu Dhabi for how we work in each emirate.

Who It's For

Industries We Serve

Banking & FinanceHealthcareGovernment-AdjacentHospitalityEnterpriseTechnology & SaaS

Certifications & Compliance

Credentials Behind Every Engagement

ADMCC-CertifiedELV & Security Systems, Abu Dhabi

NESA / UAE IASCompliance-Aligned Delivery

ISO 27001Aligned Security Practices

MicrosoftCertified Partner

AWSCertified Partner

Palo Alto NetworksCertified Partner

CiscoCertified Partner

FortinetCertified Partner

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Questions & Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

Which standard do we need, ISO 27001, PDPL, SOC 2 or PCI DSS?

That depends on your clients, sector and what data you process. ISO 27001 is the broadest and increasingly expected by enterprise procurement teams. UAE PDPL applies to almost any organisation processing personal data of UAE residents. SOC 2 is the standard requirement for SaaS and cloud providers working with international customers. PCI DSS applies if you handle payment card data. Most organisations need more than one. We help you scope which apply and design a programme that addresses them together rather than in separate workstreams.

Do you handle NESA / UAE IAS compliance too?

Yes, but NESA carries its own complexity, 188 controls across 15 domains, sector-specific overlays and its own audit process run through UAE sector regulators. For that reason it has a dedicated page with the full programme detail. See our NESA Compliance page. If you need NESA alongside ISO 27001 or another framework, we run those as an integrated programme so controls are not duplicated.

Can you take us all the way to ISO 27001 certification?

We support organisations through to certification readiness, gap assessment, control implementation, policy authoring, evidence collection and pre-audit preparation. The formal certification audit itself is conducted by an accredited certification body, which is separate from us. We prepare you for it and can be present during the audit to support control walkthroughs and evidence presentation.

How long does ISO 27001 implementation take?

It depends on your starting position, organisation size and how much of the control work you handle internally. We scope timeline and effort after the initial gap assessment rather than publishing a generic figure, a realistic estimate requires seeing your actual control maturity and gap profile, not applying a template. What we can say is that each stage is scoped and priced separately, so you have clarity before committing to the next phase.

Do you cover UAE PDPL data protection obligations?

Yes. UAE PDPL work covers data inventory and classification, lawful-basis mapping for processing activities, privacy notice and consent management, data subject rights procedures, data breach notification processes and the technical controls, encryption, access management, retention. That back them up. Where PDPL requirements overlap with ISO 27001 controls, we map them together so you are not building two separate compliance programmes for the same underlying controls.

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