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.
Check point firewall migration india: a Mumbai cooperative bank’s Sunday cutover
A 320-person Mumbai cooperative bank’s Sunday cutover from Sophos XG to Check Point Quantum. RBI audit pressure, SmartConsole rule cleanup, branch leased-line failover, and the compliance officer’s two-screenshot question.
IT asset disposal DPDP India: a Bengaluru SaaS storeroom and 280 signed certificates
IT asset disposal DPDP India: how one Bengaluru SaaS IT head moved 280 retired laptops from a storeroom to a signed certificate in 9 hours.
USB data theft prevention for Indian companies: a Pune pharma IT manager’s 9-hour Monday
How USB data theft prevention for Indian companies looks in practice: a Pune pharma IT manager’s 9-hour Monday from EDR alert to signed PO.
06:42 AM. The DPDP audit email arrived before my chai had cooled.
A Mumbai life-insurance IT head’s 9-hour Monday. The fears, the CFO pushback, the vendor call, the signed PO at 6:30 PM. Inside an Indian BFSI’s DPDP audit walkthrough.
