Guides for building a modern risk & compliance program.
Practical playbooks on compliance frameworks, third-party risk and operational resilience, written for the people who actually run these programs.
SEBI CSCRF Readiness Assessment: How to Know You're Ready
Before the deadline and before the auditor, you need to know where you actually stand. A readiness assessment is the honest gap-check against CSCRF for your category. Here's how to run one, including a self-assessment you can use today.
RBI Operational Resilience: The Guidance Note Explained
In 2024 the RBI raised the bar from managing operational risk to proving operational resilience: the ability to keep delivering critical services through disruption. Here's what the Guidance Note asks of banks and NBFCs, and how to meet it.
DPDPA for Fintechs: What the Law Requires of You
Fintechs sit at the sharp end of the DPDPA: high volumes of sensitive personal and financial data, likely Significant Data Fiduciary status, and obligations that sit on top of RBI, SEBI and PCI. Here's what the law actually asks of you.
SEBI CSCRF Incident Response and Reporting Requirements
Under CSCRF, how you handle and report an incident is itself a compliance obligation. Late or missing reports are a violation in their own right. Here's what a compliant response and reporting process looks like.
SEBI CSCRF Audit and VAPT Requirements
CSCRF does not take your word for it. It builds in independent assurance through cyber audits, VAPT and, for larger entities, a Cyber Capability Index. Here's what each involves and how often.
SEBI CSCRF Timelines and Deadlines: How to Find Yours
There isn't one SEBI CSCRF deadline. Dates have been phased and revised, and yours depends on your entity type and category. Here's how to find your date and plan back from it.
SEBI CSCRF Logging and SOC Requirements Explained
CSCRF's detect function turns logging and a SOC from nice-to-haves into obligations. Here's what to log, how long to keep it, the SOC coverage expected of your category, and the Market SOC option for smaller entities.
DPDPA Consent Requirements: What Valid Consent Looks Like
Under the DPDPA, a banner and a stored flag are not enough. Consent has to be free, specific, informed and unambiguous, as easy to withdraw as to give, and provable on demand. Here is exactly what the law requires and how to operationalise it.
RBI Information System Audit: What Banks & NBFCs Need to Know
For banks and NBFCs, the Information System Audit isn't optional, RBI mandates an independent, periodic audit of your IT ecosystem, with board oversight and tracked remediation. Here's what it covers and how to walk in ready.
Data Localisation Under SEBI CSCRF: What Must Stay in India
One of the least understood parts of SEBI's CSCRF is where your data is allowed to live. For any regulated entity running on foreign cloud or SaaS, data localisation is where compliance quietly breaks, here's what actually has to stay in India, and how to prove it.
SEBI CSCRF Penalties: What Non-Compliance Actually Costs
SEBI CSCRF doesn't come with its own rupee-value penalty schedule, but non-compliance is very much enforceable. Here's what SEBI can actually do, from a deficiency letter to a cancelled registration, and the costs that dwarf the fine.
SEBI CSCRF Applicability: Which Regulated Entities Must Comply
The most common question about SEBI's Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience Framework isn't how to comply, it's whether it even applies to you, and by when. Here's how to place your entity in the right category.
SEBI CSCRF Compliance Checklist: What Regulated Entities Need
SEBI's CSCRF raises the bar for regulated entities across six functions. Here's a plain-English, item-by-item checklist of what you need in place, plus the SOC, VAPT and audit expectations, and how to prove each one.
ISO 27001 vs SOC 2: Which Should You Pursue First?
Two of the most requested security credentials for B2B software. Here's how ISO 27001 and SOC 2 differ, who asks for which, and how to avoid doing the work twice.
A Practical Guide to Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)
Your risk increasingly lives outside your own walls. This guide walks through the third-party risk lifecycle and how lean teams keep up with a growing vendor base.
What Is Operational Resilience? A Framework for Regulated Firms
Operational resilience is more than disaster recovery. It's the ability to keep delivering critical services through disruption, and increasingly, a regulatory expectation.
DPDPA Compliance Checklist: A Practical Guide for Indian Businesses
India's DPDPA changes how organisations must handle personal data. Here's a plain-English checklist of what to put in place, and how to keep it evidenced.
SOC 2 Compliance Checklist: What You Need for Your First Audit
Heading into your first SOC 2? Here's a plain-English checklist of what auditors look for, and how to keep the evidence ready across the observation window.
Vendor Risk Assessment: A Step-by-Step Guide
A vendor risk assessment is only useful if it's structured and repeatable. Here's a step-by-step approach, and how to keep scores current instead of stale.
PCI DSS Requirements: The 12 Requirements Explained
PCI DSS is organised into 12 requirements across six objectives. Here's what each one actually asks for, and where teams usually get caught.
GDPR Compliance Checklist: A Practical Guide
The GDPR is principles-based, which makes it easy to nod along to and hard to operationalise. Here's a concrete, item-by-item checklist of what to actually put in place, and how to prove it.
TiSAX Certification: A Guide for Automotive Suppliers
If an OEM has asked for TiSAX, here's what it actually involves, the VDA ISA catalogue, assessment levels and labels, and how to prepare efficiently.
HIPAA Compliance Checklist for Health-Tech Companies
If your product touches protected health information, HIPAA applies. Here's a practical checklist of the safeguards and agreements you need.
NIST CSF Compliance: The Six Functions and How to Comply
NIST CSF is voluntary, but it has become the common yardstick for demonstrating a mature security program. Here's what NIST CSF compliance actually involves, function by function, and how to prove it.
RTO vs RPO: Business Continuity Metrics Explained
RTO and RPO get confused constantly. Here's the plain-English difference, and the other continuity metrics that drive your recovery planning.
RBI Cyber Security Framework: What Regulated Entities Need to Know
The RBI's cyber expectations are spread across directions that differ by entity type. Here's what regulated entities need in place, and how proportionality works.
OJK Compliance in Indonesia: A Guide for Financial Services
If you operate in Indonesian financial services, OJK sets the expectations. Here's a practical overview and how to build a program that's ready for supervision.
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