{"id":37471,"date":"2026-09-17T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esi.edu.sa\/?post_type=courses&#038;p=37471"},"modified":"2026-09-17T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:32:11","slug":"cybersecurity-and-compliance-with-national-controls","status":"publish","type":"courses","link":"https:\/\/esi.edu.sa\/en\/courses\/cybersecurity-and-compliance-with-national-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity and Compliance with National Controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Course Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">An applied program introducing cybersecurity requirements and compliance with national controls in Saudi Arabia, with a practical focus on implementation and compliance measurement. It covers governance, risk management, asset protection, identity and access, operations, incident response, and business continuity. The course also addresses gap assessment, evidence management, control documentation, and remediation tracking. It aims to help organizations build a clear, measurable, and continuously improving cybersecurity compliance program.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Course Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>Understand the national cybersecurity governance context.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the structure of NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls ECC 2-2024.<\/li>\n<li>Link controls to risks, policies, and procedures.<\/li>\n<li>Identify compliance responsibilities and required evidence.<\/li>\n<li>Perform gap assessment and prioritize remediation.<\/li>\n<li>Understand applicable data and cloud cybersecurity controls.<\/li>\n<li>Build a practical compliance monitoring and improvement plan.<\/li>\n<li>Build an initial compliance measurement and gap-closure plan against applicable national controls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Course Content<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>Governance and responsibilities<\/li>\n<li>ECC 2-2024 scope and structure<\/li>\n<li>Cybersecurity risk management<\/li>\n<li>Asset management<\/li>\n<li>Identity and access management<\/li>\n<li>Malware protection<\/li>\n<li>Vulnerability and patch management<\/li>\n<li>Logging and monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Incident response<\/li>\n<li>Business continuity and recovery<\/li>\n<li>Third-party cybersecurity<\/li>\n<li>Data and cloud controls<\/li>\n<li>Assessment and compliance measurement<\/li>\n<li>Evidence management and remediation plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Target Audience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cybersecurity, IT, risk, compliance, internal audit, governance teams, and system administrators.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">5 training days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1637,"featured_media":0,"template":"","course_category":[38],"class_list":["post-37471","courses","type-courses","status-publish","hentry","course_category-it-en","infinite-scroll-item","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esi.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/courses\/37471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esi.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/courses"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esi.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/courses"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esi.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esi.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/courses\/37471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37473,"href":"https:\/\/esi.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/courses\/37471\/revisions\/37473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esi.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"course_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esi.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course_category?post=37471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}