Framework overlap

Does Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) cover NIST SP 800-171A?

You hold Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) and have been told to do NIST SP 800-171A. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

72% of NIST SP 800-171A you already have

Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) already covers about 72% of NIST SP 800-171A, leaving 9 of 32 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 9 Likely covered 14 New work 9

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.

171A-AC-01
Assess Account Management
171A-AC-03
Assess Information Flow Enforcement
171A-AU-01
Assess Audit Event Logging
171A-CM-03
Assess Least Functionality
171A-CM-04
Assess Software Restrictions
171A-IA-03
Assess Authenticator Management
171A-MA-01
Assess System Maintenance Controls
171A-MA-02
Assess Remote Maintenance
171A-MP-02
Assess Media Transport Protection
Show the 23 you already have
171A-AC-02
Assess Access Enforcement
171A-AC-04
Assess Separation of Duties
171A-AC-06
Assess Remote Access Controls
171A-AC-07
Assess Wireless Access Controls
171A-IR-01
Assess Incident Handling
171A-IR-02
Assess Incident Response Testing
171A-MP-01
Assess Media Protection
171A-SC-02
Assess Cryptographic Protection
171A-SC-03
Assess Communications Protection
171A-AC-05
Assess Least Privilege
171A-AT-01
Assess Security Awareness Training
171A-AT-02
Assess Role-Based Security Training
171A-AU-02
Assess Audit Record Review and Reporting
171A-AU-03
Assess Audit Record Protection
171A-AU-04
Assess Audit Record Retention
171A-CM-01
Assess Baseline Configuration
171A-CM-02
Assess Configuration Change Control
171A-IA-01
Assess Identification and Authentication
171A-IA-02
Assess Multi-Factor Authentication
171A-SC-01
Assess Boundary Protection
171A-SI-01
Assess Flaw Remediation
171A-SI-02
Assess Malicious Code Protection
171A-SI-03
Assess System Monitoring

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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