CBUAE Cyber Security Regulations
Vulnerability management for UAE financial institutions
The Central Bank of the UAE issues binding cyber-security regulations on all licensed banks, exchange houses, finance companies, and payment-service providers. The framework — including the Cyber Risk Regulation and the Consumer Protection Standards — explicitly requires vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and risk-based patch management. Centraleyezer covers these obligations end-to-end with contextual scoring and audit-defensible evidence.
How Centraleyezer covers CBUAE Cyber Security Regulations
Centraleyezer maps directly to the technical requirements — with built-in evidence collection so audits are fast.
Vulnerability and threat management
Centraleyezer continuously ingests findings from scanners and ad-hoc tests, applies the contextual six-factor risk score, and enforces SLAs that map to CBUAE's risk-based remediation expectations for licensed financial institutions.
Annual / event-driven penetration tests
Findings from third-party penetration tests can be ingested in the same pipeline as scanner output. Deduplication, contextual scoring, and lifecycle tracking ensure pen-test results don't live in PDFs — they sit in the same audit-defensible queue as everything else.
Consumer Protection Standards — operational risk
Customer-facing systems automatically receive elevated network exposure and asset-criticality weights in the contextual model. The Consumer Protection Standards' demand for proportionate cybersecurity measures around customer data is reflected in how those assets are scored and prioritised.
Risk reporting to senior management
Executive and CISO report views translate the vulnerability posture into KPIs and trend lines suitable for the periodic board-level cyber risk reporting that CBUAE expects from regulated entities.
ICT third-party risk management
Software composition analysis and third-party component tracking surface vulnerabilities introduced through the supply chain — supporting CBUAE's expectation that financial institutions extend their cyber-risk management to their critical service providers.
CBUAE inspection readiness
Timestamped vulnerability records, SLA-adherence metrics, risk-acceptance registers, and remediation timelines are exportable for CBUAE supervisory examinations. Centraleyezer does not produce the CBUAE filing itself; it provides the evidence your team uses inside your filings.
Read more
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