Framework overlap

Does Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) cover AWWA Cybersecurity Guidance for the Water Sector (American Water Works Association)?

You hold Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) and have been told to do AWWA Cybersecurity Guidance for the Water Sector (American Water Works Association). Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

43% of AWWA Cybersecurity Guidance for the Water Sector (American Water Works Association) you already have

Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) already covers about 43% of AWWA Cybersecurity Guidance for the Water Sector (American Water Works Association), leaving 21 of 37 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 6 Likely covered 10 New work 21

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) reaches these. This is the list to scope.

AWWA-1.4
Compliance and Regulatory Alignment
AWWA-3.3
Wireless Security
AWWA-G430-1
Cybersecurity Program Governance
AWWA-G430-11
Manual Operations Capability
AWWA-G430-13
Supply Chain and Vendor Risk
AWWA-G430-14
Personnel Security and Insider Threat
AWWA-G430-15
Cybersecurity Training for Operators
AWWA-G430-16
Logging and Audit
AWWA-G430-17
Physical Security of Cyber Assets
AWWA-G430-18
Configuration and Change Management for OT
AWWA-G430-19
AWIA Risk and Resilience Assessment Compliance
AWWA-G430-2
Asset Inventory and Classification
AWWA-G430-20
Information Sharing and Reporting
AWWA-G430-21
Cybersecurity Program Review
AWWA-G430-3
Risk Assessment for Water Systems
AWWA-G430-4
Network Segmentation IT/OT
AWWA-G430-5
Access Control for SCADA and Control Systems
AWWA-G430-6
Remote Access Management
AWWA-G430-7
Patch and Vulnerability Management
AWWA-G430-8
Malware Protection
AWWA-G430-9
Boundary Protection and Monitoring
Show the 16 you already have
AWWA-1.1
Security Policy and Governance
AWWA-1.2
Risk Assessment
AWWA-2.1
User Access Management
AWWA-2.4
Physical Access Controls
AWWA-3.2
Remote Access Security
AWWA-3.4
Encryption and Data Protection
AWWA-1.3
Security Awareness and Training
AWWA-2.2
Authentication Mechanisms
AWWA-2.3
Account Management
AWWA-3.1
Network Segmentation
AWWA-4.1
Malware Protection
AWWA-4.2
Patch Management
AWWA-4.3
Configuration Management
AWWA-4.4
Audit Logging and Monitoring
AWWA-G430-10
Incident Response for Water Utilities
AWWA-G430-12
Backup and Recovery for Control Systems

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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