The regulator assumes breach. Your access model should too.
Answer RBI’s cyber security framework, vendor-oversight clauses, and audit calendars with access control that generates its own evidence.
- RBI Cyber Security Framework_
- RBI IT Outsourcing Directions_
- DPDP Act_
- PCI DSS_
- ISO 27001_
Banks run the widest trust surface in the economy: core banking touched by employees, DR sites, auditors, and a long list of technology vendors; branch networks with shared machines; payment infrastructure under NPCI and PCI obligations; and a regulator whose inspections increasingly ask not “do you have a policy?” but “show me the log.”
The legacy answer, VPN concentrators plus jump boxes plus vendor exceptions, fails on exactly the points RBI examiners probe: who precisely can reach the core? how is vendor access supervised? how quickly does a leaver lose everything? what would a stolen credential actually reach?
The five or six places this actually changes something.
- Vendor & AMC accessThe sharpest pain first: every technology vendor session scoped to named systems, time-boxed to the engagement, recorded for replay. The IT-outsourcing oversight clause, answered literally.Third-Party Access
- Core & admin planesBlackened from the internet; admin access step-up-gated with hardware token or continuous facial, geofenced, and recorded.
- Branch & off-site staffAlways-On agents on managed devices, with posture rules enforced at every connection: patch level, AV freshness, encryption.
- Auditors & inspectorsClientless read-only access: watermarked, download-blocked, fully logged. Evidence of the control is the control.Clientless Access
- Audit & SIEM202 event types into the bank's SOC across 7 export formats, and 11 report types for inspection prep.
The numbers this vertical gets asked for.
- MFA methods6, including hardware token and continuous facial for privileged users
- Branch-fleet hygiene25 device check types across 144 named rules
- Session recordingPrivileged and third-party access, recorded for replay
- GeofencingAdmin planes bounded by location as well as identity
- Split planeTransaction data never transits vendor infrastructure
Inspection-readyby default.
Three things change the week the access model does.
Evidence, not projects
Access review, vendor oversight and privileged-session evidence become exports rather than quarter-long exercises.
Vendor flank closed
Named humans, scoped tiles, recorded sessions and access that expires on its own schedule.
Core goes dark
What cannot be scanned from the internet cannot become the next CVE headline.
Outside support reached one mail server, and nothing behind it.
Third-party teams kept working on a bank’s Linux mail server from their own phones, and stopped being able to reach the network it sits in. The handset is judged before the session the same way a company laptop already was.
- Published, not routed_
- Posture on mobile_
- Need to know_
Everything an RBI inspection asks for,
already written down.
- Identity signals
- Device signals
- Network signals
- Application signals
You can verify identity, device, network, and app on every request. One decision engine evaluates all four before a single packet reaches anything — not four separate tools.
6 MFA methods, including continuous facial. Privileged banking users can be held to hardware tokens and continuous facial verification, not just a push notification.
One console, not five. ZTNA, ZTAA, IAM, MFA, and SSO — retire the point products.
We are enterprise-grade compliant. Architecture aligned to NIST SP 800-207 and CSA SDP; supports the controls required by PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, and ISO 27001.
Vendor sessions are recorded, scoped and time-boxed. The IT-outsourcing oversight question (who reached what, when, and doing what) answers from the console with replay attached.
- NIST SP 800-207
- ISO 27001
- CSA SDP
"decision": "allow"“It behaves like a natural extension of our own network. No latency complaints, and we scaled it fast.”
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