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.
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.
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.
emSigner vs DocuSign India: a Pune fintech CFO and CHRO argue it out
A 320 person Pune fintech CFO and CHRO debate emSigner vs DocuSign for offer letters, NACH mandates and vendor agreements. Pricing, data residency and the clause we added.
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.
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.
DPDP Readiness Checklist for HR and IT Teams: The 14-Item Audit Your Auditor Will Ask For
The DPDP readiness checklist for HR and IT teams Indian companies actually use before the auditor lands. 14 line items, split by who owns what.
DPDP Penalties for Indian SMBs: What You Actually Pay When Things Go Wrong
By Priya Sharma, Compliance Lead, Sirius Star Last verified 01 June 2026 The short version The headline cap is Rs.250 crore. The Data Protection Board does not start there for a 30-person company. It starts with proportionality. For an Indian SMB the realistic first-strike exposure sits in the Rs.50 lakh to Rs.5 crore band, driven…
DPDP audit India: the 11-domain prep playbook that walks a first-time CIO through cleanly
A DPDP audit India walkthrough checks 11 evidence domains and 9 documents. This playbook shows the 14-day prep drill an Indian mid-market CIO can run before a BFSI vendor risk audit lands with 7 working days notice.
DPDP compliance for MSME India: the 17-question self-test and 7-step rollout
By Priya Sharma, Compliance Lead, Sirius Star Last updated 27 May 2026 Two Sundays ago an IT-plus-admin head at a 120-person Mumbai garment exporter sent me a WhatsApp at 11:10 in the morning. His Company Secretary had emailed a Rs.84,000-plus-GST “DPDP onboarding kit”. The AGM was 25 working days away, with a 20-minute slot reserved…
