GRC for GCC banks and financial groups
Institutions regulated by SAMA run SAMA CSF, NCA ECC, and PDPL together, often alongside group-wide ISO and NIST programs. Sentinel Unity unifies vendor risk, cyber governance, audit readiness, and privacy in one platform for headquarters and subsidiaries across the Gulf.
Industry challenges
What banking GRC teams face
Programs shaped for SAMA-regulated institutions, NCA obligations, and group structures operating in multiple GCC markets.
SAMA CSF examination cycles
Annual cybersecurity assessments with evidence requirements that many teams still coordinate across spreadsheets and shared drives.
Vendor proliferation
Hundreds of technology and service vendors, each requiring tiering, due diligence, contractual security clauses, and ongoing monitoring.
Dual cyber regulators
SAMA and NCA obligations overlap but differ, requiring two major frameworks to be managed without duplicating evidence.
Audit readiness
Examiners expect defensible packages linking controls, assessments, findings, and remediation on short notice.
Data privacy complexity
Customer personal data under PDPL: consent, processing records, cross-border transfers, and breach notification workflows.
Board reporting
Leadership needs a coherent posture view: risk, compliance, and third-party exposure in one narrative.
Platform value
Built for regulated financial institutions
Compliance
SAMA CSF assessments
Structured assessments across SAMA CSF domains with maturity scoring, evidence, and findings linked to controls.
TPRM
TPRM for financial vendors
Vendor tiering, due diligence campaigns, engagements, and contractual security tracking for the full portfolio.
Controls
NCA ECC coverage
National cyber controls managed alongside SAMA programs, with shared evidence where controls align.
Privacy
PDPL alignment
Privacy obligations modeled with risk and compliance workflows, not a separate spreadsheet program.
Reporting
Audit-ready exports
Evidence organized by framework, domain, and assessment cycle for internal audit and regulatory review.
Dashboards
Executive reporting
Dashboards and report jobs from live data: posture, gaps, and vendor exposure for committee packs.
Frameworks for your program
Personal data protection for organizations processing data in the Kingdom.
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