Automate your SAMA Cyber Security Framework compliance with Sahl.
Manage and continuously monitor your SAMA Cyber Security Framework (SAMA CSF) compliance with Sahl, an AI-powered GRC platform designed to help organizations centralize cybersecurity requirements, controls, risks, evidence, remediation, and compliance activities.
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What is SAMA CSF?
The SAMA Cyber Security Framework (SAMA CSF) is a cybersecurity framework issued by the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) to establish a common approach for cybersecurity across its member organizations.
The framework is designed to help organizations manage cybersecurity risks, implement effective cybersecurity controls, and improve their cybersecurity maturity.
Each domain contains subdomains, principles, objectives, and control considerations that organizations use to establish and maintain their cybersecurity program. Sahl helps organizations turn these requirements into a structured, measurable, and continuously managed compliance program.
SAMA CSF
- Cyber Security Leadership and Governance
- Cyber Security Risk Management and Compliance
- Cyber Security Operations and Technology
- Third-Party Cyber Security
SAMA CSF compliance made simple.
SAMA CSF compliance can involve hundreds of activities across cybersecurity governance, risk management, policies, controls, operations, third-party security, and evidence. Sahl brings these activities together in one AI-powered GRC environment.
- Centralize SAMA CSF requirements, controls, and compliance activities
- Identify, assess, and continuously monitor cybersecurity risks
- Create and maintain cybersecurity policies and documentation
- Collect and organize evidence from your technology environment
- Assign, track, and manage remediation activities
- Maintain continuous visibility into your compliance posture
Instead of managing SAMA CSF compliance through spreadsheets, disconnected documents, emails, and manual evidence collection, Sahl brings your entire compliance program into one centralized platform.
Manage all four SAMA CSF domains in one platform.
SAMA CSF is structured around four major cybersecurity domains, each containing subdomains, principles, objectives, and control considerations.
Leadership & Governance
Establish governance structures, leadership accountability, and strategic direction for the cybersecurity program.
Risk Management & Compliance
Identify, assess, and manage cybersecurity risks while maintaining compliance with SAMA requirements.
Operations & Technology
Implement and operate the technical controls that protect systems, data, and infrastructure.
Third-Party Cyber Security
Manage cybersecurity risks introduced through vendors and third-party relationships.
Automate SAMA CSF risk management.
Effective SAMA CSF compliance starts with understanding and managing cybersecurity risk. Sahl connects cybersecurity risks directly with controls, requirements, evidence, and remediation activities to maintain a complete view of your organization's compliance posture.
Identify
Identify cybersecurity risks affecting systems, information assets, processes, and services.
Assess
Evaluate the likelihood and impact of each cybersecurity risk.
Prioritize
Prioritize critical risks and define risk treatment plans.
Treat
Assign risk owners and track mitigation activities.
Monitor
Monitor residual risk and maintain a centralized risk register.
Centralize your SAMA CSF control management.
Managing controls manually across spreadsheets makes it difficult to understand what has been implemented, what is missing, and what evidence supports each control. Sahl centralizes your SAMA CSF control management.
This creates a connected relationship between requirements → controls → risks → evidence → remediation.
Automate SAMA CSF evidence collection.
Evidence collection is one of the most time-consuming parts of cybersecurity compliance. Instead of repeatedly requesting screenshots, documents, logs, and records from different teams, Sahl helps organizations reduce manual evidence collection by connecting compliance activities with their existing technology environment.
Connect
Link your technology environment
Collect
Gather evidence automatically
Organize
Map evidence to controls
Monitor
Track evidence status and reviews
Manage third-party cybersecurity risk.
Third-party relationships can introduce cybersecurity risks to financial organizations and their information assets. Sahl helps teams incorporate third-party cybersecurity risk into their broader SAMA CSF compliance program.
Turn compliance gaps into tracked remediation activities.
Identify compliance gaps, assign remediation activities, track progress, and maintain accountability across control owners.
Identify Gaps
Identify missing, partially implemented, or ineffective controls.
Assign Owners
Assign corrective actions to control owners with clear deadlines.
Track Progress
Track remediation progress across your organization.
Maintain Accountability
Maintain accountability and visibility across every control owner.
From Requirements to Audit-Ready Evidence — all in one place.
Understand Requirements
Identify the SAMA CSF requirements and control considerations applicable to your organization.
Assess Risks
Identify and evaluate cybersecurity risks affecting information assets, systems, operations, and services.
Implement Controls
Assign control ownership, document implementation, and track control status.
Collect Evidence
Centralize and automate the collection of evidence supporting control implementation.
Identify Gaps
Identify missing, partially implemented, or ineffective controls.
Remediate
Assign corrective actions, establish owners and deadlines, and track progress.
Monitor Compliance
Maintain continuous visibility into your SAMA CSF compliance status.
One connected SAMA CSF compliance lifecycle. One GRC platform.
Your AI copilot for SAMA CSF & GRC.
Sahl Copilot helps compliance and cybersecurity teams understand requirements and accelerate everyday GRC work. Ask questions about SAMA CSF requirements, risks, controls, evidence, and remediation.
AI helps your team spend less time interpreting requirements and managing repetitive compliance work.
SAMA CSF compliance software for Saudi organizations.
For organizations operating within Saudi Arabia's regulated financial ecosystem, managing cybersecurity requirements requires more than maintaining policies in shared folders and tracking controls in spreadsheets.
Sahl provides an AI-powered GRC environment for managing SAMA CSF compliance alongside other Saudi and international frameworks.
SAMA CSF and enterprise GRC in one platform.
SAMA CSF rarely exists in isolation. Organizations may need to manage SAMA CSF alongside other cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory requirements. Sahl enables organizations to manage multiple frameworks through one centralized GRC platform.
Why use Sahl for SAMA CSF compliance?
AI-Powered GRC
Use AI to accelerate requirement interpretation, risk management, documentation, and everyday compliance activities.
Automation-First
Automate repetitive compliance workflows and reduce reliance on spreadsheets and manual processes.
Evidence Automation
Streamline the collection, organization, and management of cybersecurity compliance evidence.
Centralized Compliance
Manage requirements, controls, risks, policies, evidence, findings, and remediation from one platform.
Multi-Framework
Manage SAMA CSF alongside other cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory frameworks without maintaining completely separate compliance programs.
Continuous Compliance
Move from periodic compliance exercises toward continuous visibility into your cybersecurity and compliance posture.
Frequently asked questions.
What is SAMA CSF?
SAMA CSF, or the SAMA Cyber Security Framework, is a cybersecurity framework issued by the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) for its member organizations. It establishes cybersecurity principles, objectives, and control considerations for managing cybersecurity risks and improving cybersecurity maturity.
Who needs to comply with SAMA CSF?
SAMA states that its member organizations are required to adopt the Cyber Security Framework. Applicability should be determined based on the organization's regulatory relationship with SAMA and the applicable requirements.
What are the main domains of SAMA CSF?
The framework is structured around four main domains: Cyber Security Leadership and Governance, Cyber Security Risk Management and Compliance, Cyber Security Operations and Technology, and Third-Party Cyber Security.
What is SAMA CSF compliance?
SAMA CSF compliance involves establishing, implementing, monitoring, and improving cybersecurity controls and processes required by the framework, including governance, risk management, control implementation, evidence management, compliance monitoring, and remediation.
How can Sahl help with SAMA CSF compliance?
Sahl provides an AI-powered GRC platform for managing SAMA CSF requirements, controls, risks, policies, evidence, remediation activities, and compliance status from one centralized environment.
Can Sahl manage SAMA CSF and ISO 27001 together?
Yes. Sahl is designed for multi-framework compliance, allowing organizations to manage SAMA CSF alongside frameworks such as ISO 27001, NCA ECC, KSA PDPL, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and GDPR.
Does Sahl automate SAMA CSF evidence collection?
Sahl provides evidence management and automation capabilities that can help organizations collect, organize, and map compliance evidence to relevant controls, reducing manual evidence-management work.
Can Sahl help identify SAMA CSF compliance gaps?
Yes. Sahl can help organizations assess control implementation, identify compliance gaps, assign remediation activities, and track progress toward closing those gaps.
Why use a GRC platform for SAMA CSF compliance?
A GRC platform provides a centralized way to connect requirements, controls, risks, evidence, findings, and remediation. This can reduce spreadsheet-based compliance work and give cybersecurity and compliance teams better visibility into their overall compliance posture.
Start automating your SAMA CSF compliance.
Stop managing SAMA CSF compliance across spreadsheets, disconnected documents, and manual evidence requests. With Sahl, your team can manage SAMA CSF requirements, cybersecurity risks, controls, evidence, remediation, and continuous compliance in one AI-powered GRC platform.
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