Saudi Arabia NDMO Standards Support With Kiteworks’ Secure Data Management Platform
The Saudi Arabia National Data Management and Personal Data Protection Standards, established by the NDMO under Cabinet Resolution 292, govern data management practices across all Saudi public sector entities, including government organizations and companies operating public utilities. These standards encompass 191 specifications across 15 domains with annual binary compliance assessments. Kiteworks addresses these requirements through its secure file sharing and governance platform, providing comprehensive audit logging, role-based access controls, file versioning, multi-factor authentication, and real-time monitoring capabilities. The platform’s consolidated activity tracking, automated notifications, and integrated security frameworks help Saudi organizations comply with NDMO standards while maintaining operational efficiency and data security.
Automated Metadata Systems and Comprehensive Audit Requirements
Organizations struggle to implement comprehensive Data Catalog automation systems that require automated workflows for metadata population, updates, and quality management while maintaining detailed audit logs of all user activities.
Entities must:
- establish notification systems
- handle user annotations and trust certificates
- ensure systematic version management
- follow strict NDMO guidelines with defined SLAs for issue remediation across standardized implementations
Implement Complex Document Management Systems With Comprehensive Automation Requirements
Organizations must implement comprehensive document management automation with integrated metadata publishing capabilities, requiring Document Management Systems with OCR functionality, document indexing, version control with change history tracking, and global search capabilities.
Entities need Web Content Management Systems for portal content and collaboration platforms enabling real-time document editing, chat communication, and change tracking while providing complete document lifecycle management with automated metadata population across all repositories.
Security Frameworks With Multi-Layer Technical Controls
Organizations must implement comprehensive information security frameworks with integrated technical controls, establishing minimum security provisions during system development, testing, and implementation phases including secure development lifecycle processes. Entities need robust identity and access management systems for authenticating users and information systems while maintaining documented inventories of all information assets. Organizations must implement operational security management systems enabling personnel to continuously monitor, assess, and protect information assets through systematic operational duties and security oversight mechanisms.
Comprehensive Metadata Management
Kiteworks provides a consolidated activity logging system that captures metadata with key-value pairs for every tracked activity, including dates, users, activities, and IP addresses. The platform manages file metadata supporting versioning, comments, MIP tags, and custom tags while providing automated notifications for real-time metadata change monitoring. Comprehensive audit capabilities track all user activities without data throttling, and one-click updates ensure current tool versioning with cryptographic verification.
Document Lifecycle Management
Kiteworks’ comprehensive file storage capabilities and file versioning tracks document changes over time, directly supporting version control mandates. The platform implements secured access to documents through role-based access controls featuring Owner, Manager, Collaborator, Downloader, and Viewer roles. The system offers collaboration capabilities enabling users to share folders and files while tracking who accessed or modified documents, supporting workflow and change tracking requirements.
Multi-Layered Security
Kiteworks implements comprehensive DevSecOps with “shift left” security practices, including security training, design reviews, secure code reviews, and automated testing throughout development.
The platform provides extensive identity and access management supporting multiple authentication methods including SAML 2.0, LDAP, multi-factor authentication, and certificate-based authentication with role-based access controls.
Operational security management operates through comprehensive audit logging, real-time monitoring, intrusion detection systems, automated notifications, and continuous security information feeds to SIEM systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
Organizations face challenges in implementing comprehensive Data Catalog automation systems that require automated workflows for metadata population, updates, and quality management, while also maintaining detailed audit logs of all user activities. This includes establishing notification systems, handling user annotations, trust certificates, and ensuring systematic version management under strict NDMO guidelines with defined SLAs for issue remediation.
Kiteworks offers robust file storage and versioning capabilities to track document changes over time, supporting version control mandates. It provides secured access through role-based controls with roles such as Owner, Manager, Collaborator, Downloader, and Viewer. Additionally, it enables collaboration by allowing users to share folders and files while tracking access and modifications, meeting workflow and change tracking requirements.
Kiteworks incorporates multi-layered security through DevSecOps with ‘shift left’ practices, including security training, design reviews, secure code reviews, and automated testing during development. It also offers extensive identity and access management with multiple authentication methods like SAML 2.0, LDAP, multi-factor authentication, and role-based access controls, alongside operational security management with audit logging, real-time monitoring, intrusion detection, and integration with SIEM systems.
Comprehensive document management automation is crucial for organizations to integrate metadata publishing capabilities, requiring systems with OCR functionality, document indexing, version control, change history tracking, and global search capabilities. It also necessitates Web Content Management Systems for portal content and collaboration platforms that support real-time editing, chat communication, and complete document lifecycle management with automated metadata population across repositories.
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Saudi Arabia NDMO Standards Compliance Support With Kiteworks
