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NCA AI Cybersecurity Guidelines Readiness

Use AI with confidence. We help you prepare for the National Cybersecurity Authority's AI Cybersecurity Guidelines, covering the AI tools your staff use and the AI systems you build, including generative and agentic AI.

What the AI Cybersecurity Guidelines Are

The AI Cybersecurity Guidelines from the National Cybersecurity Authority set cybersecurity requirements for the use and development of artificial intelligence in the Kingdom. The public consultation closed in August 2026 and the guidelines are being finalized; their scope covers emerging technologies such as generative and agentic AI, for public and private entities that use or plan to adopt AI.

The draft is organized around four domains: cybersecurity governance, cybersecurity defence, cybersecurity resilience, and third-party cybersecurity. In practice that means knowing which AI systems you run, protecting the data and models behind them, controlling what AI agents are allowed to do, and managing the AI vendors you depend on.

Who Needs This

  • Organizations whose staff use generative AI tools at work.
  • Teams building chatbots, copilots or AI agents on top of company data.
  • Entities buying AI-powered products or services from vendors.
  • Leaders who want to adopt AI quickly without creating new data or security risks.

Our Methodology

Every engagement follows the Cyber Shields rhythm: Assess, Protect, Monitor. For this engagement, that translates into the following steps.

  1. AI inventory. Under a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement, we list the AI tools in use and the AI systems you build or buy, with the data each one touches.
  2. Risk review. We assess risks such as data leakage, prompt injection, unsafe agent actions, model and supply chain risk.
  3. Readiness assessment. We measure your practices against the four domains of the guidelines, and update the assessment as the final text is published.
  4. Controls and policy. An acceptable-use policy for AI, plus technical and process controls sized to your use.
  5. Roadmap and briefing. A prioritized roadmap and a leadership briefing, in Arabic and English.

What You Receive

  • Inventory of AI tools and systems with the data they use.
  • AI risk review with prioritized findings.
  • Readiness assessment against the guideline domains.
  • AI acceptable-use policy and control set.
  • Roadmap and leadership briefing, in Arabic and English.

Standards & References

Findings are anchored to recognized frameworks so they are defensible and cross-mappable.

  • NCA AI Cybersecurity Guidelines
  • ISO/IEC 42001
  • PDPL
  • OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications

Official Sources and References

The documents behind this page, linked at the publisher. Where a Saudi regulation is published in both languages, the Arabic text is the binding version.

Engagement & Investment

Every engagement is scoped individually. Pricing depends on the size and complexity of your environment, the systems or controls in scope, and the timeline you need to work to. Rather than publish figures that rarely fit a specific situation, we prepare a written proposal with a clear fee and schedule once your scope is understood.

Tell us about your organization and the deadline you are working toward, and we will return a tailored proposal within five business days, following a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are the guidelines final?

The public consultation closed in August 2026 and the text is being finalized. We assess against the published draft and update our assessment when the final version is issued.

We only use ChatGPT or Copilot. Does this apply?

Yes. Staff use of AI tools is one of the most common sources of data leakage, and it falls within the scope of AI governance.

How does this relate to ISO/IEC 42001?

ISO/IEC 42001 is an international management system for AI. The two fit together, and we can align your programme with both.

Will the report be available in Arabic?

Yes. Reports, the executive summary, and the readout session are available in both Arabic and English at no additional cost.

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ISO/IEC 42001

A certifiable management system for responsible, secure use of AI.

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PDPL

Readiness for the Personal Data Protection Law: data governance, records of processing, and data-subject rights handling.

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NCA ECC

Gap assessment and remediation against the National Cybersecurity Authority Essential Cybersecurity Controls, the mandatory baseline for most Saudi organizations.

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Request a Proposal for AI Cybersecurity Readiness

Tell us how your organization uses AI and we will return a written proposal within five business days. NDA first, always.