Central Bank of Oman Cyber Security and Resilience Framework compliance software
The Central Bank of Oman's framework for every licensed institution — six control domains from governance to online financial services, with the compliance deadline already passed.
- RegulatorCentral Bank of Oman
- Deadline31 July 2024 for implementation; compensating controls need CBO approval
- DomainsGovernance · Risk Management · Technology & Operations · Third-Party Supply Chain · Online Financial Services · Compliance & Audit
- Controls193 measures, each citing its CS&RF section
What CBO CS&RF requires
Who it applies to
- Banks licensed by the Central Bank of Oman
- Finance and leasing companies
- Money exchange companies
- Payment service providers and fintechs under CBO licence
In 2023 the Central Bank of Oman issued the Cyber Security and Resilience Framework, binding on every CBO-licensed institution: banks, finance and leasing companies, money exchange companies and payment service providers. Licensed institutions were required to implement the mandated controls by 31 July 2024, and any institution unable to implement a control must justify it and demonstrate a compensating control to CBO for approval.
The framework structures its requirements under six control domains: cyber security governance; cyber security risk management; cyber security in technology and operations; cyber security in third-party supply chain management; cyber security of online financial services; and cyber security compliance and audit. Each domain opens with an objective and sets out the measures an institution is expected to have in place.
GRCLens's catalogue is generated from CBO's published document — a scanned PDF with no text layer, so the extraction is by optical character recognition and checked against the framework's section structure before anything is written. Each control carries its section and measure number, and the Arabic is ours.
How GRCLens supports CBO CS&RF
CBO CS&RF runs on the same shared control model as every other framework in GRCLens, so evidence captured once can satisfy several obligations at the same time.
Six domains, CBO's section titles
The framework's own structure, §3.1 to §3.6, with each measure carrying its section reference so an examiner follows it straight back to the text.
Compensating controls on record
Where a measure is not implemented as written, the justification and the substitute control are recorded against it — the record CBO asks for when it approves an exception.
Online financial services evidenced
Authentication, transaction monitoring and customer-protection measures for digital channels sit beside the PCI DSS and ISO/IEC 27001 controls that ask for the same evidence.
Third-party supply chain joined to the vendor register
Supplier due diligence, contract terms and monitoring draw on the vendor register the institution already keeps, rather than a second list maintained for CBO alone.
CBO CS&RF frequently asked questions
Who must comply with CBO's Cyber Security and Resilience Framework?
Every institution licensed by the Central Bank of Oman: banks, finance and leasing companies, money exchange companies and payment service providers.
What was the compliance deadline?
31 July 2024. Institutions unable to implement a specific control were required to justify the gap and demonstrate a compensating control for CBO's approval. GRCLens records that justification against the control.
Can the framework be run alongside Oman's PDPL?
Yes. Both are catalogue frameworks on the same control model. Security, breach and third-party controls that appear in both are assessed once and the evidence satisfies both.
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