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A focused course, tailored for you

RBI Cybersecurity Controls for Banking InfoSec Teams

Build a unified evidence architecture that clears RBI examinations, CERT-In incident reporting, and ISO 27001 group audits in one pass.

Your group ISO 27001 control testing spreadsheet and the RBI IT examiner's evidence request template do not speak the same language. The examiner wants specific artefact formats tied to RBI's own domain categories. Group audit wants coverage statements mapped to Annex A. CERT-In wants incident logs in a different structure. An Information Security professional at a foreign bank's India operations spends more time translating between these three frameworks than implementing the controls themselves.

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Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Every RBI IT examination cycle starts with the examiner's pre-examination questionnaire, organized by RBI's cybersecurity framework domains. Your team has the controls. The evidence exists across your GRC platform, your SIEM, your vendor assessment register, and your ISO 27001 statement of applicability. The work is not in having the right controls. The work is in producing the right artefacts, in the right format, tagged to the right RBI categories, before the examiner arrives. Teams that have built a translation architecture make the next cycle repeatable. Teams that have not do it by hand each time, often finding that controls their ISO 27001 audit accepted are still flagged by the RBI examiner because the artefact format does not match the specific expectation. The CERT-In six-hour incident reporting obligation adds a third format requirement that your group's incident management template was not built to produce directly.

What you walk away with

Build a three-way control mapping that satisfies RBI Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001 Annex A, and CERT-In requirements from a single control inventory.
Produce a complete RBI IT examination evidence binder organized by examiner workflow rather than your internal GRC taxonomy.
Implement a CERT-In incident reporting workflow that generates submission-ready reports at each notification stage from your existing incident management process.
Complete third-party vendor risk assessments in a format that satisfies both RBI outsourcing guidelines and group TPRM requirements simultaneously.
Build a quarterly compliance monitoring process that keeps your evidence pack current between examinations with minimal rework at examination time.

The 12 modules

Module 1. RBI Cybersecurity Framework Mapped to Your Control Inventory

RBI's five-domain cybersecurity framework uses different category labels than NIST CSF and ISO 27001 Annex A. This module builds the three-way mapping table that becomes the spine of your evidence architecture. You identify which of your existing controls satisfies which RBI domain requirement, where the gaps are, and how to fill them with documentation the examiner accepts. Output: a control inventory spreadsheet tagged by RBI domain, ISO 27001 clause, and CERT-In obligation, ready for examination submission.

Module 2. CERT-In Incident Reporting: Structure, Timing, and Log Format

The six-hour initial notification, twenty-four-hour intermediate report, and thirty-day final report each require different information in different formats. This module builds the incident reporting workflow: what qualifies as a reportable event, how to triage severity, what to include in each report stage, and how to maintain the incident log in a format that satisfies both CERT-In requirements and your group's incident management template simultaneously. Output: incident reporting workflow, log template, and submission checklist.

Module 3. ISO 27001 Coverage vs RBI Prescription: Finding the Gaps

ISO 27001 sets principles and lets you scope controls to your risk profile. RBI prescribes specific controls regardless of your risk assessment. This module identifies where ISO 27001 certification creates false comfort: controls your group passed that RBI examiners still flag because they want prescriptive evidence of a specific activity, not a principle satisfied by another control. Output: gap register mapping ISO 27001 controls to RBI mandatory requirements, with documentation guidance for each gap.

Module 4. RBI IT Examination: How to Organize Your Evidence Binder

RBI IT examinations for scheduled commercial banks follow a structured evidence request process. The examiner arrives with a questionnaire that maps to specific control domains. This module walks through the examination lifecycle, the common artefacts requested, how to organize your evidence binder by examiner workflow rather than your internal taxonomy, and the observations that consistently appear in examination reports for foreign bank India operations. Output: evidence binder template organized by RBI examination workflow and domain sequence.

Module 5. Third-Party Risk Assessments for RBI Outsourcing Compliance

RBI's outsourcing guidelines require banks to assess vendor risk against specific criteria: data access classification, criticality rating, sub-contracting controls, and exit planning documentation. Your group's third-party risk management template may not capture these in the format the RBI examiner expects. This module builds an assessment questionnaire and scoring methodology that satisfies group requirements and produces the vendor risk register in the RBI-compliant format. Output: vendor assessment template and risk register formatted for examination review.

Module 6. Data Localization Controls for Global Bank India Operations

RBI's payment data localization mandate requires that payment system data relating to Indian customers is stored only within India. For a global bank, this intersects with group data classification policies, cross-border data transfer controls, and cloud hosting configurations. This module maps the localization requirement to specific technical controls and the documentation trail that demonstrates compliance to the RBI examiner. Output: data localization control checklist and evidence template organized for examination submission.

Module 7. SOC Evidence Structure for RBI Continuous Monitoring Requirements

RBI requires banks to demonstrate continuous security monitoring. Your SOC produces SIEM alerts, log retention reports, and threat intelligence feeds daily. This module builds the bridge between your SOC's operational outputs and the RBI examiner's evidence categories: how to document monitoring coverage, alert response times, log retention periods, and threat correlation activity in a format that maps to the RBI Cybersecurity Framework's Detect domain. Output: SOC evidence pack template organized for RBI examination review.

Module 8. Vulnerability Management and Patch Compliance for RBI

RBI requires banks to conduct regular vulnerability assessments and penetration tests and to remediate findings within prescribed timescales. This module covers how to document your VA and PT program in the format RBI expects, how to demonstrate patch compliance for critical systems, how to handle CERT-In advisories for banking infrastructure, and how to close open findings in a way that satisfies examiner follow-up queries. Output: VA and PT log template and patch compliance reporting format for examination.

Module 9. Network Security Evidence for RBI IT Examination

Firewall change management logs, network segmentation diagrams, and perimeter security testing results are among the most frequently requested artefacts in RBI IT examinations. This module builds the evidence set for your network security controls: change management documentation in the format RBI expects, segmentation evidence that demonstrates cardholder data environment isolation, and IDS and IPS alert summaries mapped to the Protect domain requirements. Output: network security evidence pack organized for examination review.

Module 10. User Access Management and Privileged Access Evidence

RBI requires banks to maintain documented user access reviews, privileged access controls, and access recertification cycles. Your group IAM controls may satisfy these requirements operationally but document them in a format that does not map to what the examiner requests. This module builds the access management evidence set: user access review records, privileged account inventory, access recertification documentation, and supporting policy references formatted for RBI examination submission. Output: IAM audit evidence pack.

Module 11. Cyber Resilience and BCP Evidence for RBI Requirements

RBI requires banks to maintain cyber resilience plans addressing specific scenarios: ransomware, distributed denial-of-service attacks, insider threat, and third-party failure. Your group BCP and DR documentation covers these conceptually but may not produce the scenario-specific evidence the examiner requests. This module builds the cyber resilience evidence set: tabletop exercise records, recovery time objective testing logs, and scenario-response documentation mapped to the RBI Cybersecurity Framework's Recover domain. Output: cyber resilience evidence pack.

Module 12. Quarterly Compliance Monitoring and Evidence Maintenance

Between RBI IT examinations, your evidence pack goes stale as controls change, systems change, and vendor relationships evolve. This module builds the quarterly compliance monitoring process: which evidence needs refreshing each quarter, which controls require active testing, and how to maintain a living evidence pack that requires only minor additions before the next examination rather than a full rebuild from scratch. Output: quarterly compliance calendar and evidence maintenance checklist for banking InfoSec teams.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

RBI IT examination evidence preparation and artefact reconciliation across RBI Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001, and CERT-In requirements.

CERT-In incident report drafting and log maintenance for regulatory compliance and examination audit trail.

Third-party vendor risk assessment for RBI outsourcing guideline compliance alongside group TPRM requirements.

Quarterly compliance monitoring and evidence pack maintenance between examination cycles.

What you get with this course

12 text-based course modules covering RBI Cybersecurity Framework, CERT-In incident reporting, ISO 27001 gap analysis, and examination evidence preparation.
Downloadable control mapping templates for RBI-to-ISO 27001-to-CERT-In reconciliation.
RBI IT examination evidence binder template organized by examiner workflow.
CERT-In incident reporting log templates for initial, intermediate, and final submissions.
Vendor risk assessment questionnaire aligned to RBI outsourcing guidelines.
Quarterly compliance monitoring calendar and evidence maintenance checklist.
Hand-built implementation playbook tailored to your control environment, delivered alongside course access.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Course access and downloadable templates available within 24 hours of purchase.

Hand-built implementation playbook tailored to your control environment delivered alongside course access.

Before and after

Before

Three separate evidence preparation exercises before each RBI IT examination: one for RBI framework requirements, one for CERT-In incident log review, one for group ISO 27001 audit readiness. No shared artefact format, significant rework each cycle, and manual translation between frameworks for every control domain.

After

A unified evidence architecture that produces examination-ready artefacts for all three regulatory requirements from one control inventory, updated quarterly, requiring only minor additions before each examination.

What happens if you do not address this

Each RBI IT examination without a unified evidence architecture adds weeks of preparation work. Observations accumulate where artefact formats do not match examiner requirements, even when the underlying controls are sound. Third-party risk assessments that satisfy group requirements but not RBI's specific outsourcing guidelines create avoidable audit findings that carry into the following examination cycle.

Who it is for

Information Security professionals at the associate or analyst level within the India operations of global banks and large financial institutions, responsible for preparing evidence for RBI IT examinations, submitting CERT-In incident reports, and supporting internal ISO 27001 audit cycles. You operate controls that satisfy multiple frameworks but spend significant time manually reconciling between regulatory and group audit formats before each examination.

Who this is NOT for. Security operations professionals focused exclusively on threat detection or incident response who have no involvement in regulatory compliance evidence preparation. Also not suited for practitioners working outside the Indian banking regulatory environment or at domestic banks without group-level ISO 27001 or NIST CSF obligations.

How it arrives

Text-based course in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every module, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.

Time investment. Twelve modules designed for completion across four to six weeks alongside active work. Each module includes a downloadable template you apply directly to your current control environment.

Why $199 is the right number

Generic ISO 27001 or NIST CSF courses do not address RBI-specific requirements or the translation work between frameworks. RBI IT examination consulting engagements typically cost significantly more and produce documents you cannot update yourself. This course builds the internal capability and the reusable artefact templates your team keeps across examination cycles.

FAQ

Does this cover the RBI Master Direction on IT Framework?

Yes. The control mapping module covers the RBI Master Direction on IT Framework with specific reference to the sections most frequently examined in RBI IT examinations for foreign banks operating in India.

Is this relevant if we already have ISO 27001 certification?

Particularly relevant. ISO 27001 certification does not satisfy all RBI prescriptive requirements. The gap between what certification covers and what RBI examiners specifically request is where most examination observations originate for global banks.

Does it cover CERT-In incident reporting requirements?

Yes. Module 2 covers the six-hour initial notification, twenty-four-hour intermediate report, and thirty-day detailed report requirements, with template documentation for each submission stage.

How is the implementation playbook tailored?

The implementation playbook is built by hand for your specific role and control environment, delivered alongside course access within 24 hours of purchase.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.