PDPL Readiness Assessment
A precise, evidence-based read on where you stand against UAE PDPL — and what closing the gap actually requires.
A structured assessment of your organisation's processing activities, controls and governance against UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data and its executive regulations, benchmarked against how UAE Data Office guidance is actually being enforced in practice.
Most PDPL gap assessments are checklists dressed up as strategy. Boards and regulators are no longer satisfied by a traffic-light PDF — they want to know what is actually broken, what it will cost to fix, and who owns the fix. Getting this wrong means budgeting for the wrong risks, or discovering the real gaps during a breach investigation.
- Interview data owners across legal, IT, HR, marketing and operations to map real processing activity, not policy fiction.
- Assess consent, lawful basis, cross-border transfer and retention practices against PDPL obligations.
- Score governance maturity across accountability, DPO function, training and vendor oversight.
- Prioritise findings by regulatory exposure and operational cost to remediate, not by how easy they are to fix.
- —A board-ready PDPL readiness report with a defensible maturity score
- —A prioritised remediation roadmap with owners and timelines
- —A regulatory exposure heat-map across your top processing activities
- —An executive briefing session with your leadership team
3–5 weeks for a mid-market organisation; 6–8 weeks for multi-entity or regulated groups.
CEOs, General Counsel, CISOs and Boards who need a credible, defensible answer to "are we compliant" — before a regulator, acquirer or insurer asks first.
Generic consultancies hand you a maturity matrix and leave. We hand you a roadmap our own team is prepared to help you execute — and we say plainly when something isn't a real gap, not just a checkbox.
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