Governance & Compliance / Data Protection

Build practical data protection into operations

1600 Cyber helps organizations translate Saudi PDPL responsibilities into coordinated governance, data-lifecycle practices, cybersecurity controls, third-party oversight, and evidence.

The challenge

Personal data moves across business processes, applications, cloud services, analytics, AI tools, vendors, and national boundaries. Sustainable compliance requires collaboration among privacy, legal, security, data, procurement, and operations.

What we help you achieve

01

Better visibility into personal data, processing, ownership, and flows

02

Clear governance and operational accountability

03

Risk-based technical and organizational safeguards

04

Stronger third-party and transfer oversight

05

Defensible procedures, evidence, and incident coordination

How we help

  • PDPL readiness and control-gap assessments
  • Data inventory, classification, and flow mapping
  • Governance, roles, policies, and operating procedures
  • Security and access-control alignment
  • Retention, deletion, and data-lifecycle practices
  • Third-party and cross-border transfer control support
  • Personal-data breach coordination and response readiness
  • Evidence, metrics, and continuous assurance

Our approach

  1. Step 1

    Discover

    Identify personal-data activities, systems, owners, processors, and flows.

  2. Step 2

    Assess

    Compare current governance and controls with applicable responsibilities.

  3. Step 3

    Implement

    Build prioritized processes, safeguards, documentation, and evidence.

  4. Step 4

    Sustain

    Monitor change, risk, incidents, providers, and control performance.

Why 1600 Cyber

We connect privacy obligations with cybersecurity and technology implementation. We work alongside the client’s legal counsel to operationalize requirements without presenting technical consulting as legal advice.

Make data protection part of how systems and teams operate.