PDPL & SDAIA Data Protection Readiness — Saudi Arabia
SKYLINE delivers pdpl & sdaia data protection readiness across Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, NEOM, and every major Saudi city — by a Saudi engineering team, with Arabic-native software, local support, and on-premise or cloud deployment.
The Saudi Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), supervised by the Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA), is now fully enforceable on every organization that processes the personal data of individuals in the Kingdom — whether you are based in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, or operating from abroad. SDAIA expects you to demonstrate compliance on request, not merely declare it, and a personal data breach must be reported within 72 hours. Skyline helps Saudi and GCC organizations move from uncertainty to a defensible, audit-ready data-protection posture.
Our engineers and consultants run a structured PDPL readiness engagement: data discovery and personal-data inventory, data mapping, a Record of Processing Activities, a gap assessment against PDPL articles and the NCA Data Cybersecurity Controls (DCC-1), then a prioritized remediation roadmap. We help you stand up consent capture and records, data-subject-rights workflows, a 72-hour breach-notification runbook, processor agreements, and data-retention and classification policies — backed by practical technical controls (encryption, access management, data loss prevention) deployed on-premises or in Saudi-resident cloud.
- PDPL gap assessment, data mapping and Records of Processing Activities
- Data Protection Impact Assessments and cross-border transfer reviews
- Consent management, data-subject-rights and breach-notification runbooks
- Data classification, retention, DLP and encryption deployment
- DPO support, staff awareness training and audit-readiness
Skyline is a vendor-neutral Saudi systems integrator: we align your controls with PDPL, SDAIA guidance and the NCA's data controls, but we do not sell certificates or claim accreditations we do not hold — we deliver the practical work that makes an audit go well. Engagements scale from a focused readiness review for an SME to a full program for a regulated enterprise.
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