The Indian SIEM your CFO will sign
DNIF HYPERCLOUD SIEM for Indian BFSI, healthcare, and IT-services teams. Log ingestion in EPS or GB, 365-day India-resident retention, INR billing, and a Mumbai engineering team that ships parsers in a week.
Microsoft Partner · Bitdefender Partner · BNI Navi Mumbai · Vashi, Maharashtra
Start the scoping call before your next CERT-In incident. Six hours is not the window to find out your log pipeline was broken.
DPDP Act 2023 · statutory cap
₹250 Cr
That is the maximum DPDP penalty for a single breach. A SIEM without 365 days of retained logs is a SIEM that cannot prove what happened. DNIF holds the evidence the regulator asks for, in the country the regulator expects.
Source: MeitY DPDP Act 2023, section 33
What makes DNIF the Indian SOC default
SIEM plus security data lake, billed in INR
DNIF combines log analytics, detection engineering, and 365-day retention in one platform. The price is denominated in INR, and the tenant lives in India. Two friction points that kill Splunk and QRadar deals at Indian midmarket simply disappear.
The engineering team is in Mumbai. If your core banking, ERP, or custom app needs a new parser, the request lands with people in IST. Most parsers ship inside a week.
Price on Request
Detection rules
Pre-built rules cover MITRE ATT&CK tactics and CERT-In-listed incident types. Tune them in the console.
Core
365-day retention
One year of logs in an India tenant by default. The regulator narrative is ready before they ask.
Standard
Custom parsers
Bank-grade and ERP log shapes added without a US ticket queue. Mumbai engineering ships in days.
Included
24×7 MDR retainer
Sirius Star analyst desk watches alerts around the clock. Incident triage handed to your team with a fix path.
Optional
Where DNIF fits Indian compliance
The DPDP Act caps penalties at ₹250 Cr and expects 72-hour breach notice. CERT-In direction 20(3)/2022 mandates 6-hour reporting of specified incidents. The RBI cyber resilience framework asks for log retention and continuous monitoring. DNIF ships evidence in the shape each regulator expects.
Log ingestion at scale
Firewall, EDR, identity, cloud, and application logs land in one lake. The DNIF parser library covers the common Indian enterprise stack. Custom parsers ship in a week.
Ingest
365-day India retention
One full year of logs stored in an India tenant. When the regulator asks for the trail from 11 months ago, the data is there. The forensic story does not collapse.
Retain
Named CERT-In detections
The detection pack maps to CERT-In direction 20(3)/2022 incident categories. Ransomware, unauthorised access, data leak, and DDoS surface as named alerts ready for the 6-hour clock.
Detect
Regulator-ready report export
The audit-log export is shaped for the DPDP fiduciary report and the CERT-In template. Less narrative writing. More signal in the document.
Report
DNIF vs Splunk vs QRadar vs Microsoft Sentinel
DNIF is not the only SIEM we deploy. The honest call depends on your log volume, your team size, and your existing identity and endpoint stack.
Splunk wins at large enterprises with deep log-engineering teams and global ecosystem needs. Search performance is best in class. The price slope is the issue at Indian midmarket.
IBM QRadar fits buyers who want the X-Force threat-intel feed wired into the same console. See our QRadar India page.
Microsoft Sentinel fits buyers already on M365 E5 with Defender as the SOC primary. The Azure-native ingestion is clean. The cost is bundled differently.
For endpoint detection that feeds DNIF, see Bitdefender GravityZone or CrowdStrike Falcon. For data classification, see Secure Data Guard.
How a Sirius Star DNIF engagement runs
DNIF SIEM India from Sirius Star is procurement, deployment, parser tuning, and optional 24×7 managed detection for Indian BFSI, healthcare, and IT-services teams. Delivered from Vashi, Navi Mumbai. INR billing. India-resident tenant.
- Free 8-hour scoping call and log-source inventory
- HYPERCLOUD tenant provisioning and top-10 log onboarding in week one
- Detection-rule tuning and SOC playbook handover in week two
- 24×7 MDR cut-over in week three when you take the retainer
- Quarterly review of rule drift, retention, and DPDP audit export
- Endpoint feed paired through Bitdefender GravityZone
If your daily log volume is under 5 GB and you only need basic Windows audit search, a hosted ELK stack is the cheaper shape. We will tell you so. If you already pay for Splunk Enterprise and the contract has 18 months to run, switching costs more than it saves at midmarket. We run the math openly in the review.
Pair DNIF with the rest of the security stack
SIEM is the listening layer. It needs feeders. Start at the Cloud and Cybersecurity hub for our complete catalogue.
For endpoint feed, read the Bitdefender GravityZone India guide. For privileged-session feed, see the ARCON PAM India guide. For data classification feed, see Secure Data Guard.
DNIF SIEM India FAQ
What is DNIF SIEM and why does it fit Indian businesses?
DNIF HYPERCLOUD is an Indian-built SIEM and security data lake. It ingests logs, runs detection rules, and stores 365 days of audit data in an India-resident tenant. For Indian buyers it removes the forex pressure of Splunk and the per-GB cost shock of QRadar SaaS. Sirius Star deploys DNIF for BFSI, healthcare, and IT-services teams that need 24×7 detection without a tier-1 budget. Pair it with Bitdefender GravityZone at the endpoint.
What does DNIF SIEM India pricing look like in 2026?
DNIF is licensed by log volume in EPS or daily GB, billed in INR. The slope is materially below Splunk and IBM QRadar at equivalent ingestion. The MDR retainer is priced per analyst-hour. Final price depends on your log sources, your retention window, and whether you take managed detection. We share a written 24-month TCO in the scoping call. Pricing is on-request because the volume band changes the unit cost.
DNIF vs Splunk vs IBM QRadar vs Microsoft Sentinel for an Indian buyer?
DNIF wins on INR billing, India data residency, and a Mumbai engineering team that can ship a custom parser inside a week. Splunk wins on global ecosystem depth at large enterprises. IBM QRadar wins where the buyer wants the X-Force threat-intel feed in the same console. Microsoft Sentinel wins when the team already pays for M365 E5 and Defender is the SOC primary.
How does DNIF help with DPDP Act and CERT-In 6-hour reporting?
The DPDP Act expects breach notification inside 72 hours. CERT-In direction 20(3)/2022 requires reporting of specified incidents inside 6 hours. DNIF retains 365 days of logs by default in an India tenant, so the forensic trail is intact. Detection rules surface CERT-In-listed incident types as named alerts. The audit-log export is shaped for the regulator narrative. Sirius Star runs the quarterly retention review.
How does a Sirius Star DNIF rollout actually run?
Week one is a free scoping call and log-source inventory. Week two is HYPERCLOUD tenant provisioning, top-10 log source onboarding, and detection-rule tuning. Week three is the SOC playbook handover and 24×7 MDR cut-over if you take the retainer. A quarterly review covers rule drift, retention, and DPDP audit-log export. The whole engagement runs from Vashi, Navi Mumbai with INR billing.
One DNIF retainer. Every log source. Every alert.
Free 8-hour scoping call. Read-only log-source inventory of your current SIEM gaps, retention status, and CERT-In reporting readiness. Written report inside one business day with the EPS sizing, the 24-month TCO, and the MDR retainer option.
Email care@siriusstar.in · Vashi, Navi Mumbai · Pan-India delivery
P.S. A health-tech CISO in Bengaluru told us last quarter their Splunk renewal had jumped 40 percent on the rupee slope. We ran the scoping call on a Tuesday. By Friday the DNIF tenant was live for their top 12 log sources. The CFO signed the next year of detection at a slope the board called sane.