DPDP audit response India: 8-week bank plan
How a 280-seat Mumbai bank delivered an 8-week DPDP audit response to a Section 33 management letter. Triage, fixes, documentation, submission.
SonicWall firewall India: a Mumbai NBFC’s Friday cutover, an amber alert, and a Sunday off
The short version A 350-seat Mumbai NBFC swapped an 8-year-old FortiGate at BKC and six end-of-support SonicWall TZ300s in branches for a SonicWall NSa 3700 at HQ plus TZ570s at each branch, ahead of an RBI cyber audit. On Friday afternoon, a Capture ATP alert about C2 traffic from the accounts-payable subnet read like a…
Email DLP cost in India: a 230-user NBFC quote breakdown
Email DLP cost in India for a 230-user Mumbai NBFC: Year 1 Rs 6.36L, Year 2 Rs 4.72L. The five line items behind the Rs 150 per user sticker.
DPDP readiness assessment: a Bengaluru NBFC’s 4-hour day
A day-in-the-life DPDP readiness assessment at a Bengaluru NBFC. 4-hour scan, 12-page report, the HR gap nobody talks about.
ARCON PAM India: a Chennai BPO’s vendor-audit Friday
Day 38 of a 56-day ARCON PAM rollout at a 380-seat Chennai BPO under a US client vendor audit. Session recording, JIT, ARCON vs CyberArk honest call, and the Day 39 to Day 56 closure plan.
Aurva data security platform India: a Mumbai NBFC pilot Day 3 diary
Day 3 of an Aurva DSPM pilot at a 280-person Mumbai NBFC. The scan finds a 2023 KYC archive S3 bucket with Aadhaar and PAN. The 60-day cleanup queue.
DPDP Rules 2025: a Mumbai bank’s notification-day plan
MeitY notified the DPDP Rules 2025 on 13 Nov 2025. The 14-month plan: Consent Manager, SDF readiness, 72-hour breach filing, one-year logs.
Trend Micro Cloud One workload security India: a Bengaluru fintech’s Friday after the amber
A 180-person Bengaluru fintech’s Friday after Trend Micro Cloud One Workload Security threw an amber alert on a production EKS node. The cryptominer, the gap, the fix.
Okta SSO rollout in India: a Pune NBFC’s audit-week story
How a 280-person Pune NBFC moved 64 business apps under Okta Workforce Identity Cloud in fourteen days to clear a DPDP audit IAM material gap. Priya’s day-in-the-life on a clean walkthrough.
Palo Alto Prisma Access India: the amber alert we read wrong on a Saturday afternoon
A Mumbai NBFC postmortem: a Saturday amber DLP alert on Palo Alto Prisma Access turned out to be a data scientist exfiltrating the credit scoring model in five chunks.
