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Compliance · India

Meet CERT-In directions, MeitY guidelines and DPDP Act obligations.

CERT-In issues binding directions on cyber security incident reporting, log retention and KYC requirements for cloud and VPN providers. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act (2023) adds personal data obligations.

About the framework

What is India CERT-In Directions?

Service providers, body corporates, data centres and government entities operating in India. CERT-In April 2022 directions specifically include cloud service providers in their reporting and log retention scope.

Who it applies to

Indian banks (under RBI cyber security framework), insurance carriers (under IRDAI), telecommunications operators, government departments at central and state level, and global SaaS vendors serving Indian customers.

Cloudgenics mapping

How we satisfy India CERT-In Directions

  • India region residency on AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba
  • Six-month log retention with synchronised time source
  • CERT-In incident reporting runbooks within 6-hour SLA
  • DPDP Act personal data handling controls
  • RBI cyber security framework alignment for BFSI customers
Evidence model

What auditors get on day one.

Mapped control catalogue

Every India CERT-In Directions requirement mapped to the Cloudgenics technical controls that satisfy it, with traceability.

Continuous evidence feed

Telemetry, configuration scans and audit logs streaming into a tamper-evident evidence store with retention aligned to the framework.

Walkthrough kit

Standardised auditor walkthrough materials — diagrams, run-books and policy templates — that fast-track the assessment.

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