UAE Information Assurance Standards
Vulnerability assessment & penetration testing for CII
The UAE Information Assurance Standards (IAS), issued by the UAE Signals Intelligence Agency (formerly NESA), define mandatory cybersecurity controls for federal government entities and Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) operators. The standard explicitly requires structured vulnerability management and regular penetration testing as part of its Technology controls family. Centraleyezer provides the contextual scoring, evidence trail, and audit-defensible records that IAS assessors expect.
How Centraleyezer covers UAE Information Assurance Standards
Centraleyezer maps directly to the technical requirements — with built-in evidence collection so audits are fast.
Vulnerability identification and patch management
Centraleyezer continuously ingests vulnerability data from your scanners, applies the contextual six-factor risk score, and tracks remediation against documented SLAs — fulfilling IAS T7.4.1's requirement for ongoing vulnerability identification, risk-based prioritisation, and patching.
Penetration testing programme
Vulnerability findings from internal and external penetration tests can be ingested alongside scanner output, deduplicated, scored contextually, and tracked through the remediation lifecycle. The full audit trail demonstrates the IAS-required closed-loop testing programme.
Asset management and information classification
Asset criticality scoring (low → critical) maps directly to the IAS asset classification model. Group-based access control ensures vulnerability data inherits the same classification as the assets it relates to.
Strategy and governance — risk register
Contextual risk scores produce an authoritative, dynamic risk register that the ISMS can use as evidence for IAS Strategy & Governance reviews. Risk acceptances are timestamped, attributed to a named approver, and linked to compensating controls.
Communications and operations — change management
Patch deployment workflows tie remediation actions to change-management records. Every state change is logged, supporting the IAS T5 requirement for documented operational change.
Periodic IAS assessment readiness
Vulnerability records, SLA-adherence metrics, risk-acceptance registers, and remediation timelines are exportable as Executive, CISO, and Technical reports — the evidence pack your IAS assessor expects to sample. Centraleyezer does not generate the IAS compliance report itself; that remains your information-security team's output.
Read more
- UAE vulnerability management & penetration testing — practical guide
IAS, CBUAE, DESC, ADHICS, TDRA, and PDPL — what each one asks for in practice.
- CVSS scores aren't enough — contextual RBVM
Why a contextual model is necessary to satisfy IAS T7.5's 'risk-based' expectation.