Data protection at employee exit: the Diwali resignation wave
The Diwali bonus clusters resignations into two weeks. Why offboarding data protection breaks at volume, what leaves with a departing employee, and the exit audit to run first.
BYOD Policy for an Indian SMB: A Template You Can Adapt in an Afternoon
A working BYOD policy for an Indian SMB, built in one afternoon. Scope, security baseline, DPDP, MDM enforcement and offboarding, with a six-part template.
The night a green backup failed
A Nagpur hospital backup ran green for 14 months, then ransomware encrypted the copies too. What three lost days taught us about immutable storage and Arcserve.
Check Point firewall India: a Hyderabad hospital, a 2 AM amber alert, and the Quantum cutover that followed
Check Point firewall India in a Hyderabad hospital: a 2 AM amber alert, a Quantum NGFW cutover, and an honest call against Fortinet, Palo Alto and SonicWall.
Morphisec India: a Mumbai SaaS security lead runs the 30-day proof after an EDR near-miss
How a 260-person Mumbai SaaS security lead ran a 30-day Morphisec proof on 80 endpoints after an EDR caught a fileless loader 41 minutes late. Seven prevented in-memory attacks, ten analyst hours back per week, one CFO renewal call won.
DNIF SIEM India: The Friday a Mumbai NBFC SOC Almost Waved an Amber Alert Through
A Mumbai NBFC SOC almost waved through an amber alert on a Friday. How DNIF SIEM India changed detection, cost and the DPDP 72-hour clock.
Microsoft Defender for Business India: what a 190-seat Bengaluru brand already pays for
A 190-seat Bengaluru brand asked what Microsoft Defender for Business India covers, what is bundled in Business Premium, and what they were paying twice for.
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…
Microsoft 365 backup retention India: SaaS mailbox-gone Monday
Microsoft 365 backup retention runs 30 days on a leaver mailbox. A Bengaluru SaaS lost a Sales Director inbox on day 96. The Veeam fix, cost, and policy.
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.
