Policies and standards
Digital, data and service standards written for your organisation, each with an owner and a review cycle.
Industry context
Digital governance in energy and utilities
We set up digital governance so leadership can see whether each programme follows the standards that apply to it.
Most of the work is agreeing the rules before writing them: who owns each decision, which national standards apply and what evidence will show compliance. We then set up the policies, the decision forums and the measures that show leadership whether digital programmes follow them.
Energy and utility companies run long-lived assets where reliability and safety come first, and their control systems fall under OT security requirements. Field crews, control room operators and asset managers need changes scheduled within approved shutdowns and maintenance seasons, under HSE rules. In the UAE, TDRA's digital government policies and emirate programmes such as Digital Dubai set expectations, and in Saudi Arabia the Digital Government Authority's standards and SDAIA's data management and personal data rules.
After stabilisation we hand over to your teams or keep running the service with you.
Alongside sector regulation, we often map delivery evidence to cross-industry baselines such as the UAE Information Assurance Regulation issued by TDRA, the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls in Saudi Arabia and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which many risk reviewers already use.
What we deliver
Specialists in energy and utilities and platform engineers, with you from design to stable operation.
Decision forums
Terms of reference for the boards that approve digital investment, architecture and data sharing.
Compliance measurement
Indicators and evidence that show how each programme meets the standards your regulator or authority sets.
OT security and sector rules
We design around OT security requirements such as the UAE Information Assurance Regulation and the Dubai Electronic Security Center's standards, or NCA OTCC in Saudi Arabia, with IEC 62443 for control systems, and keep the compliance evidence your regulator and HSE function review.
Data governance
Data ownership, classification and sharing rules set out for each data domain.
Portfolio oversight
A view of digital programmes against the standards, reviewed by the decision forums on a set cycle.
What to have in place first
Digital governance is ready to set up when leadership agrees who decides on digital investment and data, and is prepared to enforce the rules.
- The OT owner of each control system in scope has been named.
- Leadership has named who owns digital governance and which national standards apply to you.
- The forums that will approve digital investment and data sharing have been named.
Plan digital governance in energy and utilities
Tell us where you are today and which dates matter. We will propose a first phase with scope, owners and an itemised quotation.