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National Data Standards Compliance & Assessment Training Course

Goes beyond governance concepts to turn national data standards into a compliance plan per domain, with controls, evidence and KPI reports for assessments.

DMS · Data Management & GovernanceAll Levels#3018ClassroomEnglish , Arabic
Duration
5 Days
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Sectors:Data, Analytics & Digital TransformationCategories:Data Management & Governance

Course Overview

The National Data Standards Compliance & Assessment Training Course equips government data offices, compliance teams, and internal auditors to turn national data management and personal data protection standards into a working compliance program. Rather than revisiting general data governance concepts, the course works through the standards domain by domain and converts each requirement into owned controls, documented evidence, and measurable compliance indicators. Government entities across the Gulf are increasingly assessed by national data regulators, such as the National Data Management Office (NDMO) in Saudi Arabia, against published requirements for data management, classification, data sharing, and personal data protection. Passing these assessments requires a clear view of which controls apply, who owns them, what proof will satisfy an assessor, and how progress is reported to leadership and to the regulator. The program covers reading and scoping national standards, control applicability, gap assessment, compliance planning, policy and control design, evidence registers, self-assessment, internal audit testing, remediation tracking, and KPI reporting, with attention to the links between data standards and personal data protection law. Through a running case of a government entity, participants build a control applicability matrix, gap assessment, evidence register, mock assessment, and compliance dashboard that they can adapt to their own organization's assessment cycle.

Learning Objectives

  • Interpret the structure of national data management and personal data protection standards.
  • Determine which domains, controls, and specifications apply to a government entity.
  • Build a control applicability matrix linked to data assets and organizational units.
  • Conduct a domain-by-domain gap assessment against current practices and documentation.
  • Develop a prioritized compliance plan with owners, resources, and milestones.
  • Translate standard requirements into policies, procedures, and operational controls.
  • Define compliance roles across the data office, data owners, and data stewards.
  • Design an evidence register that meets assessor expectations for sufficiency and traceability.
  • Plan and perform self-assessments and internal audit testing of data controls.
  • Prepare the entity for regulator assessments, interviews, and evidence reviews.
  • Develop compliance KPIs and dashboards for leadership and regulator reporting.
  • Establish remediation tracking and continuous monitoring to sustain compliance.

Who Should Attend

This training course is designed for chief data officers, data office heads, data management officers, data governance and data quality specialists, data owners and data stewards, privacy and personal data protection officers, compliance managers, and internal auditors responsible for data controls. It is particularly relevant to ministries, government authorities, and government-owned companies that are subject to national data management, data classification, data sharing, and personal data protection standards and must demonstrate compliance during regulator assessments. The program will also benefit risk managers, information security and records management professionals, enterprise architecture teams, strategy and performance officers, and consultants who support government entities in preparing compliance plans, evidence, and progress reports.

Learning Outcomes

  • Explain how national data standards are organized into domains, controls, and specifications.
  • Define the compliance scope and justify control applicability for their entity.
  • Map controls to data assets, systems, data owners, and organizational units.
  • Perform a domain-by-domain gap assessment using a consistent rating scale.
  • Prepare a prioritized compliance plan that leadership can approve and fund.
  • Write testable control statements, policies, and procedures for priority domains.
  • Assign compliance responsibilities across the data office and business units.
  • Maintain an evidence register that is sufficient, current, and traceable.
  • Test control design and operating effectiveness through self-assessment and internal audit.
  • Lead the entity through a regulator assessment.
  • Report compliance progress through KPIs, risk indicators, and dashboards.
  • Sustain compliance through remediation tracking and continuous monitoring.

Course Outline

Day 1

Reading National Data Standards & Scoping Compliance

  • Mandate of national data regulators and data offices.
  • Structure of standards: domains, controls, and specifications.
  • Links between data management standards and personal data protection law.
  • Distinguishing maturity levels from mandatory compliance controls.
  • Defining the compliance scope: entity, systems, and data assets.
  • Building an obligations register from published requirements.
  • Determining control applicability and documenting justified exclusions.
  • Mapping controls to units, data owners, and systems.
  • Agreeing compliance governance, sponsorship, and reporting lines.
  • Practical Application: Build a control applicability matrix for a case government entity.
Day 2

Domain-by-Domain Gap Assessment & Compliance Planning

  • Designing a gap assessment method and rating scale.
  • Assessing governance, policy, and organizational controls.
  • Assessing metadata, data catalog, and data quality controls.
  • Assessing data classification, sharing, and open data controls.
  • Assessing personal data protection and privacy controls.
  • Assessing master data, architecture, and lifecycle controls.
  • Rating gaps by risk, effort, and dependency.
  • Building a compliance plan with owners, resources, and milestones.
  • Securing leadership approval and budget.
  • Practical Application: Complete a gap assessment and compliance plan for selected domains.
Day 3

Designing Controls, Policies & Procedures

  • Translating each requirement into a testable control statement.
  • Writing policies and procedures that assessors accept.
  • Assigning control owners and data stewards with a RACI matrix.
  • Data classification procedures and handling rules.
  • Data sharing requests, agreements, and approval workflows.
  • Records of processing and privacy impact assessments.
  • Data quality rules, thresholds, and issue management.
  • Embedding controls in system changes and procurement.
  • Balancing manual and automated controls.
  • Practical Application: Draft controls, a RACI matrix, and procedures for a priority domain.
Day 4

Compliance Evidence, Testing & Assessment Readiness

  • Types of evidence: documents, records, logs, and system outputs.
  • Criteria for evidence sufficiency, relevance, and currency.
  • Maintaining an evidence register with version control.
  • Running the self-assessment with domain owners.
  • Internal audit testing of control design and operating effectiveness.
  • Sampling, walkthroughs, and documenting test results.
  • Preparing staff for assessor interviews and evidence reviews.
  • Responding to assessor queries.
  • Recording findings and agreeing corrective actions.
  • Practical Application: Run a mock assessment using the case evidence register.
Day 5

Compliance KPIs, Reporting & Sustained Compliance

  • Designing compliance KPIs and key risk indicators by domain.
  • Building compliance dashboards for leadership and data committees.
  • Preparing progress reports for the regulator.
  • Tracking remediation actions, overdue items, and escalations.
  • Continuous control monitoring and periodic reassessment.
  • Applying the Three Lines Model to data compliance.
  • Managing updates to standards and guidance.
  • Building compliance awareness and capability.
  • Linking compliance results to data maturity improvement.
  • Final Workshop: Develop and present an integrated compliance program covering scope, applicability, gaps, plan, controls, evidence, KPIs, and remediation.

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Abuja · 18 – 22 Oct 2027 · Classroom

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