Most UAE compliance advice stops at a policy set. The obligations that actually bite are architectural: which data may leave the country, which processing must happen in-country, and whether your free-zone entity is subject to a stricter transfer regime than the federal one. Those are design decisions, and they get very expensive to retrofit.
Why teams choose us.
Mapped To Your Architecture
NESA and ISR controls traced onto your actual services, data stores and pipelines — not a spreadsheet of control text with your logo on it.
Residency Designed In
We establish what must stay in-country before you build around an assumption you cannot keep. Health data and Dubai government data have hard localisation.
Free Zone vs Federal
DIFC and ADGM are stricter than the federal regime and neither lists India as an adequate jurisdiction. We work out which regime you are actually in — most clients have not.
Dubai-Fronted Delivery
Our MENA office fronts the engagement and the account management. Engineering is delivered from Mumbai, and we tell you that up front because your regulator will ask.
The full menu.
NESA / UAE IA Mapping
- 60 management and 128 technical controls
- Traced to services and owners
- Priority ordered by regulatory exposure
- Gap register with engineer-day costings
DESC ISR v3
- 13 domains assessed against your estate
- Mapped onto existing ISO 27001 controls
- In-country processing boundaries identified
- Dubai government pipeline requirements flagged
Data Residency Architecture
- Data classification and flow mapping
- In-country processing boundary design
- Health and financial localisation checks
- Cross-border transfer inventory
Free Zone Transfer Position
- DIFC or ADGM applicability assessment
- Recipient-jurisdiction assessment where required
- Article 42 safeguards where India is in the chain
- Federal PDPL position documented
Remediation Plan
- Every gap costed in engineer-days
- Sequenced by regulatory exposure
- Build-vs-buy called per item
- Deliverable as a Remediation Pod if you want us to ship it
Our process.
Establish The Regime
Mainland, DIFC or ADGM — and whether any sectoral localisation applies. This determines everything downstream and is frequently misunderstood.
Map Data & Controls
Data classification, flow mapping, then NESA and ISR controls traced onto real architecture with owners attached.
Design The Boundary
What stays in-country, what may transfer and under which safeguard. Documented so it survives a regulator asking.
Cost & Sequence
Every gap in engineer-days, ordered by exposure. You fund it, we ship it, or you take it in-house.
What we build with.
Choose this if...
Honest about who this is for.
This will be a fit.
- You are a mainland UAE commercial organisation, or a free-zone entity that knows which regime it is in
- You want control mapping traced onto architecture, not a policy pack
- You would rather decide the residency boundary at design time
- You are comfortable that engineering is delivered from Mumbai with Dubai-fronted account management
Honestly — not our zone.
- —You process health data. It may not be stored, processed or transferred outside the UAE, which closes offshore delivery outright
- —You are a Dubai government entity or run a regulated pipeline under DESC ISR requiring in-country processing — we decline rather than promise a workaround
- —You want certification against ISR or NESA. We do the engineering; assessment and certification come from elsewhere
- —You want Saudi coverage as the primary market. NCA ECC-2 effectively requires an in-Kingdom presence; we take KSA only as pull-through from a UAE client under the UAE contract