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Six hours to report. Evidence has to exist before the clock starts.

CERT-In, SEBI and IRDAI each require an incident to be reported within six hours. RBI requires prompt reporting too, and the DPDP Act adds breach obligations and penalties. In every case, the regulator wants the same answers: which systems were affected, who owns them, what you knew, and what you did about it.

The reporting clocks

Too short to go looking for the asset register.

Six hours is not enough time to work out which application a server belongs to, which business service it supports, or who is accountable for it. That map has to exist before the incident. Building it is what Klair Vu does every day.

6hours

CERT-In

Report cyber incidents from the time they are noticed. Keep ICT logs for 180 days, within India.

CERT-In Directions, 28 Apr 2022
6hours

SEBI CSCRF

Regulated entities report cyber incidents to SEBI, in line with the CERT-In timeline.

SEBI CSCRF, 20 Aug 2024
6hours

IRDAI

Insurers report incidents to CERT-In and IRDAI. Logs are retained in India.

IRDAI Info & Cyber Security Guidelines, 2023
72hours

DPDP

A detailed personal-data breach report to the Data Protection Board, after notifying affected people without delay.

DPDP Rules, 2025
Regulator by regulator

What each one asks for, and where we help.

Klair Vu is exposure management, not a SOC. It doesn't detect intrusions or file incident reports for you. What it does is build and maintain the context those reports depend on. It also closes the exposures that become incidents in the first place.

Reserve Bank of India

RBI cyber security frameworks

Scheduled commercial banks, urban co-operative banks (graded by level), NBFCs. Includes the 2016 framework for banks, the UCB framework, and the 2023 Master Direction on IT Governance, Risk, Controls and Assurance.

What it requires

  • An inventory of IT assets, with business criticality
  • Patch and vulnerability management, with secure configuration
  • Board-approved cyber policy and periodic board reporting
  • Prompt reporting of unusual cyber incidents to RBI

With Klair Vu

  • Findings mapped to RBI UCB framework controls (baseline and graded) Available
  • Asset → application → business-unit → owner register, kept current from your scanners Available
  • Board-level risk view and readiness self-check (try it) Available
  • Mapping for the commercial-bank framework and the IT Governance Master Direction Roadmap
CERT-In · IT Act section 70B

CERT-In Directions

Service providers, intermediaries, data centres, body corporates and government organisations. In practice, almost every organisation operating in India.

What it requires

  • Report listed incident types within 6 hours of noticing them
  • Retain ICT system logs for a rolling 180 days, within India
  • Synchronise clocks to NIC or NPL time servers
  • A designated point of contact for CERT-In

With Klair Vu

  • Affected asset → business service → named owner, known in minutes rather than hours Available
  • Tamper-evident audit trail of every finding, status change and decision Available
  • On-premise deployment keeps all data and logs in India Available
  • CERT-In incident-report template pre-filled from asset and owner context Roadmap
Securities and Exchange Board of India

SEBI CSCRF

SEBI-regulated entities, from market infrastructure institutions to mid-size and small intermediaries. Each category has graded obligations. The top 1,000 listed companies also carry risk-committee duties under LODR Regulation 21.

What it requires

  • Identification and classification of critical systems
  • Periodic VAPT, with tracked closure of findings
  • SOC coverage, whether in-house, market-wide or third party
  • Cyber resilience reporting to the board and to SEBI

With Klair Vu

  • VAPT and scanner findings deduplicated, owned and tracked to closure with SLA Available
  • Critical-system register with business criticality Available
  • CSCRF control mapping and compliance-report export Roadmap
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India

IRDAI Information & Cyber Security Guidelines

Insurers, and intermediaries within the guidelines' scope.

What it requires

  • Report incidents to CERT-In and IRDAI within 6 hours
  • Logs retained within India
  • Vulnerability management and periodic audit

With Klair Vu

  • Vulnerability management, owner mapping and audit trail as above Available
  • IRDAI guideline control mapping Roadmap
Ministry of Electronics and IT

Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

Every organisation that processes digital personal data in India. Under the DPDP Rules, 2025, most obligations take effect 18 months after notification, around May 2027.

What it requires

  • Reasonable security safeguards. Failure carries penalties of up to ₹250 crore
  • Notify affected people and the Board of a breach without delay. A detailed report follows within 72 hours
  • Keep access logs and the means to investigate a breach

With Klair Vu

  • Shows which applications hold personal data and what is exposed on them, prioritised Partial
  • Evidence of safeguards in place: findings closed, controls tested, audit trail Available
  • DPDP control mapping and breach-notification workflow Roadmap
Data sovereignty

Residency is one question. There are four.

Storing data in India is necessary, but it isn't the whole answer. A regulator, and a careful board, will also ask who can operate the system, who holds the keys, and whether anything leaves the country. Here is where we stand on each.

Where data lives Available

On-premise or air-gapped: on your hardware, in your data centre. SaaS hosted in India is on the roadmap.

Who operates it Available

On-premise, your team operates it. Licensing works offline, so the vendor has no access path into your deployment.

Who holds the keys Available

On-premise, you generate the key that encrypts connector credentials. We never see it. Bring-your-own-key for SaaS is on the roadmap.

Does anything call out Available

Not by default. Correlation, scoring and dashboards never use AI. AI features only reach an external model if your administrator adds a key, and personal data and secrets are stripped from the text first. Threat-model AI can run on a local model you host. Local-model support for the AI assistant is on the roadmap.

Strict per-tenant data isolation. Every tenant's data is kept strictly separate, and the audit trail is tamper-evident. Both are tested on every release; architecture details are available under NDA.

Where we stand

Available today, and not yet.

Marked plainly. Anything marked available can be shown in a live console. Anything on the roadmap, we will tell you so before you ask.

Framework or capabilityStatus
RBI cyber security framework for UCBs: control mappingAvailable
ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA: control mappingAvailable
Asset → application → business unit → owner registerAvailable
Tamper-evident audit trail; strict per-tenant data isolationAvailable
On-premise and air-gapped deploymentAvailable
AI features off by default; external model only with an admin-supplied key, with personal data and secrets stripped from the textAvailable
Threat-model AI on a self-hosted model (Ollama or your own endpoint)Available
Personal-data tagging of applications for DPDPPartial
RBI commercial-bank framework and IT Governance Master Direction mappingRoadmap
SEBI CSCRF, IRDAI, DPDP control mappingRoadmap
AI assistant and Ask on a self-hosted modelRoadmap
CERT-In incident-report templateRoadmap
SaaS hosted in India; bring-your-own-key for SaaSRoadmap
Sources

Read them yourself.

Last reviewed 3 October 2026. This page summarises public regulatory texts to explain how our product relates to them. It is not legal advice, and regulations change. Always confirm your obligations against the current text and with your compliance team.

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