Indian regulatory compliance FAQs

Bitkosh's DPDP Compliance Audit starts at ₹75,000 for startup and early-stage scope. It covers a single product, a gap assessment against DPDP Act 2023 requirements and a remediation roadmap. This is a flat starting rate for standard scope, not a custom enterprise quote, so it fits budgets in the India and Odisha market.

Bitkosh's ISO 27001 Readiness Consulting starts at ₹1,50,000, covering gap assessment, documentation and control implementation to get your ISMS ready for certification. The certification body's own audit fee is listed as a separate line item in our pricing, not bundled into this starting rate, so you know upfront what Bitkosh's work covers versus what the certifying body charges.

Because the 2013-edition transition deadline has passed. Organizations still holding a legacy ISO 27001:2013 certificate now need a full re-certification against the 2022 edition, not a lighter gap assessment. Bitkosh's ISO 27001:2022 Implementation service is scoped around this, including risk assessment, an updated Statement of Applicability, policy suite and certification body liaison.

Yes. Bitkosh's DPDP Act 2023 Compliance service includes Data Protection Officer advisory alongside data mapping, privacy impact assessments and consent management design. It also covers the added Significant Data Fiduciary obligations under the Act, so organizations that fall into that category get their specific compliance duties addressed, not just generic privacy controls.

Yes, if you need more than one framework. Bitkosh's Multi-Framework Crosswalk maps overlapping controls across ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and DPDP using an in-house crosswalk engine, so you comply once and satisfy several frameworks instead of running each as a separate, duplicated project.

Every engagement opens with a discovery call, not a proposal. Bitkosh's team asks what is actually driving the work, a certification deadline, investor due diligence, an enterprise customer questionnaire or a regulatory mandate, before scoping anything. Only after that intake do we write a fixed-scope, fixed-price statement of work.

Every audit runs through Bitkosh's own Compliance Management Platform™, which keeps control mapping and evidence collection live between audits instead of producing a one-time snapshot. Your team can see current evidence and control status year-round, rather than waiting for the next renewal to find out what changed.

Bitkosh's Indian Regulatory & Government Audits practice covers CERT-In Cyber Security Audits, SEBI Compliance Audits, RBI Security Audits, IRDAI Security Audits, NPCI UPI Compliance Audits, UIDAI AUA and KUA Audits, STQC EPS and Cyber Security Audits, and DL SAR Compliance Audits, spanning banking, securities, insurance, payments and identity infrastructure regulators.

Yes. UIDAI AUA and KUA Audit is one of Bitkosh's Indian Regulatory & Government Audits offerings, built for organizations that need to meet UIDAI's AUA and KUA requirements. The engagement follows the same evidence-led process as our other regulatory audits, ending with a leadership readout and prioritized remediation actions for your team to act on.

Bitkosh runs an NPCI UPI Compliance Audit as a distinct offering within its Indian Regulatory & Government Audits practice, separate from CERT-In or RBI audits. It is scoped specifically for UPI-related compliance, with findings, evidence and a remediation roadmap delivered through the same audit-ready process as our other regulatory work.

You receive a statement of work and scope register, technical findings backed by evidence and traceability, a risk-rated remediation register (POA&M), and an executive decision brief. The engagement closes with a structured workshop so leadership can review residual-risk decisions and technical teams know exactly what to act on next.

Yes. Bitkosh's advisory engagements include a close-out walkthrough plus 30 days of follow-up support after delivery, on top of the executive summary and prioritised remediation roadmap with named owners. Any scope changes during the engagement itself go through a documented change request rather than a surprise invoice.

Bitkosh's compliance and audit work is built around CISOs and security leadership, IT, engineering and operations teams, risk, compliance and procurement teams, and government or regulated program owners. Each group gets outputs suited to its role, from technical evidence for engineers to an executive decision brief for leadership sign-off.

Yes. Bitkosh's Virtual CISO (vCISO) service is fractional security leadership on retainer, covering board-level governance, programme management and regulatory interaction. It suits organizations that need ongoing senior security decision-making without hiring a full-time CISO, particularly while working through DPDP Act or sector-specific regulatory obligations that require sustained attention.

No. Bitkosh's Posture and Maturity Assessment benchmarks your organization against recognized frameworks and produces a prioritized roadmap to close gaps, but it is not a certification. Actual certification, such as ISO 27001 certification, is issued by a separate certification body; Bitkosh's readiness work and the certification audit fee are listed as separate items in our pricing.

Because the goal is to close gaps before an auditor ever shows up. Bitkosh's audit-ready approach means policy, evidence and control gaps are identified and closed in advance, backed by the continuous evidence collection built into the Compliance Management Platform™, so problems are fixed ahead of time rather than discovered as findings during the actual assessment.

Yes. Bitkosh's Risk & Vendor Assessment service builds ISO 27005 and NIST-aligned risk registers, runs third-party security reviews, and audits cloud posture against CIS Benchmarks across AWS, Azure and GCP. It sits within the same consultancy practice that handles ISO 27001, DPDP Act and CERT-In readiness work, so vendor risk is not treated as a separate afterthought project.

Bitkosh's consultancy practice is built specifically for sector-regulated teams, including HealthTech and FinTech companies facing sector regulation, alongside SMEs pursuing ISO 27001 or DPDP Act compliance and startups preparing for Series A due diligence. The engagement structure stays the same: fixed-scope statement of work, severity-rated findings and a prioritised remediation roadmap with named owners.

STQC EPS and Cyber Security Audit and DL SAR Compliance Audit both sit under Bitkosh's Indian Regulatory & Government Audits practice. Both follow the same delivery standard as our other regulatory work: scope, data classification and acceptance criteria confirmed upfront, an evidence-led execution phase, and a leadership readout with prioritized remediation actions and a close-out workshop.

No. The ₹1,50,000 starting ISO 27001 Readiness Consulting price covers gap assessment, documentation and control implementation, the work that gets your management system ready for certification. The certification audit fee itself is listed as a separate line item, since that fee is paid to the certification body that actually issues the ISO 27001 certificate, not to Bitkosh.

Before any audit or consultancy work starts, Bitkosh confirms authority to act, scope boundaries, data classification, stakeholders, critical assets and acceptance criteria. This baseline step exists so both sides agree on what is in scope and what counts as sufficient evidence before specialists begin evidence-led execution with checkpoints and escalation paths.

The close-out workshop delivers a leadership readout, technical evidence, prioritized remediation actions and residual-risk decisions your leadership team needs to sign off on. It sits at the end of Bitkosh's Assure phase, transferring capability back to your team rather than just handing over a report, so you leave with decisions made, not just findings listed.

Bitkosh includes 30 days of follow-up support after a consultancy engagement closes, on top of a close-out walkthrough. This covers questions on the peer-reviewed deliverables, severity-rated findings and prioritised remediation roadmap handed over at delivery, giving your team a defined window to clarify anything before working through the roadmap on your own.

Engagements typically start from one of four drivers: an approaching certification deadline, investor due diligence ahead of a funding round, an enterprise customer's security questionnaire, or a regulatory mandate. Bitkosh's discovery call is built around understanding which of these is behind the request before anyone proposes a scope, so the resulting statement of work matches the actual deadline.

Scope changes go through a documented change request, not a surprise invoice. Bitkosh's consultancy engagements start with a written statement of work listing explicit inclusions, exclusions, timeline and pricing, and any change to that scope during delivery is logged and agreed through the change request process rather than appearing as an unexplained line item later.

Findings are severity-rated using CVSS v4 for technical vulnerabilities or the ISO 27005 risk matrix for broader risk findings, depending on what is being assessed. This gives each finding a consistent priority ranking that feeds into the remediation roadmap, so your team can decide what gets fixed first instead of working through an unranked list of issues.

Yes, cloud posture audits against CIS Benchmarks are part of Bitkosh's Risk & Vendor Assessment service, covering AWS, Azure and GCP. It runs alongside ISO 27005 and NIST-aligned risk registers and third-party security reviews, so your cloud configuration gets checked against a recognized benchmark rather than only a general policy review.

Beyond the policy suite, Bitkosh's ISO 27001:2022 implementation covers defining scope, running a risk assessment, building the Statement of Applicability, conducting an internal audit and liaising with the certification body on your behalf. It is an end-to-end ISMS setup, not just documentation, and the 2013-edition transition deadline has passed, so older certificates now need re-certification rather than a gap plan.

Yes. The vCISO retainer provides fractional security leadership that includes board-level governance and programme management, alongside regulatory interaction and security budget input. It is built for organizations that need senior security direction and reporting without hiring a full-time CISO, delivered on a retainer rather than as a one-off project.

DevSecOps pipeline hardening secures the build and deployment pipeline itself, tooling, permissions and automated checks in CI/CD, while application security testing examines the application's own code and behaviour for vulnerabilities. Bitkosh offers both as separate consultancy services, so a team can harden how software gets shipped and separately test what actually gets shipped.

A security team catches issues after code is written; secure development training changes how developers write it in the first place. Bitkosh offers it as a separate consultancy service aimed at engineering leaders embedding security into the SDLC, so vulnerabilities get prevented at the source rather than only caught later in review or testing.

Yes. Alongside Indian regulatory work, Bitkosh's Data Privacy Compliance service covers GDPR, CCPA, PDPL and HIPAA for organizations handling personal or health data outside India's DPDP Act framework. It sits next to the Indian regulatory and government audit practice, so a company facing both Indian and international privacy obligations is not split across two vendors.

ISO 42001 is Bitkosh's framework for AI management systems, offered alongside ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC 2, PCI DSS and FISMA under the Global Security Frameworks practice. It is for organizations that build or deploy AI systems and want their AI governance benchmarked as part of a posture and maturity assessment, rather than folded into a general information security audit.

Yes, PCI DSS Compliance is part of Bitkosh's Global Security Frameworks practice, alongside ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 42001, SOC 2 and FISMA. It sits separately from the NPCI UPI Compliance Audit under Indian Regulatory & Government Audits, so a business handling card payment data can be assessed against the card industry's own standard, not only the UPI-specific one.

Yes, startups preparing for Series A due diligence are one of the groups Bitkosh's consultancy practice is built for. Investor due diligence is listed as one of the common triggers for a discovery call, and outputs like an executive summary, severity-rated findings and a remediation roadmap are meant to be shown to a board or investors during that process.

Yes, international SaaS companies needing offshore AppSec depth are explicitly one of the groups Bitkosh's consultancy is built for. Application Security Testing is offered as a standalone service, and delivery follows the same fixed-scope statement of work, severity-rated findings and close-out process used for any consultancy engagement, regardless of where the client is based.

Yes, Bitkosh publishes rate cards for its consultancy services rather than issuing custom global-consultancy-style quotes, priced for Indian businesses. Compliance audit engagements are similarly productized, with standard-scope work like the DPDP Compliance Audit and ISO 27001 Readiness Consulting listed at flat starting rates, so you know the starting cost before a scoping call happens.

It largely does not: the same three-phase delivery standard, scope baseline, evidence-led execution and an assurance close-out, applies whether the work is a commercial engagement or a government program. The real difference is who owns the outcome, CISOs and leadership on the commercial side, government and regulated program owners on the other, both getting the same structured evidence and executive decision brief.

Yes. RBI Security Audit is one of the Indian Regulatory & Government Audits Bitkosh runs, alongside CERT-In, SEBI and IRDAI audits. Engagements follow the same three-stage approach used across our regulatory work: scope baseline and data classification, evidence-led execution with checkpoints, and an assurance stage that hands over technical evidence and a risk-rated remediation roadmap. Banks and NBFCs get the same structured, auditable record.

SEBI Compliance Audit is one of Bitkosh's Indian Regulatory & Government Audits, alongside CERT-In, RBI and IRDAI work, aimed at market intermediaries. Like our other regulatory engagements, it opens with a scope baseline covering stakeholders and critical assets, runs through evidence-led execution with checkpoints and escalation paths, and closes with a leadership readout and a risk-rated remediation register your compliance team can act on.

Yes, IRDAI Security Audit is one of the named Indian Regulatory & Government Audits Bitkosh offers, built for insurance companies alongside RBI, SEBI and CERT-In work. The engagement follows the same scope, execute and assure structure as our other regulatory audits, ending with technical findings, a risk-rated remediation register and a leadership readout rather than just a checklist.

Yes, if you serve California residents, CCPA falls under Bitkosh's Data Privacy Compliance services alongside DPDP Act 2023, PDPL and GDPR. The engagement is scoped like our other privacy audits: data mapping, a gap assessment against the relevant statute, and a prioritized remediation roadmap, delivered through the same evidence-led process as our Indian regulatory work.

Yes, PDPL is listed alongside DPDP Act 2023, GDPR and CCPA under Bitkosh's Data Privacy Compliance services, so it is in scope for organizations operating under Gulf-region data protection law. As with our other privacy engagements, the work follows the scope, execute and assure structure, ending with evidence-backed findings and a prioritized remediation roadmap rather than a generic checklist.

Yes, FISMA Compliance appears among Bitkosh's Global Security Frameworks services, alongside ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and the ISO 27017/27018/42001 family. It is scoped and delivered through the same evidence-led process as our other framework work: baseline scope, execution with an auditable record, and an assurance stage with prioritized findings and a remediation roadmap.

CERT-In Readiness is a separate consultancy offering from the CERT-In Cyber Security Audit itself. Readiness work closes policy, evidence and control gaps before an auditor ever arrives, so the formal CERT-In audit runs cleanly instead of surfacing gaps mid-assessment. Bitkosh does not hold CERT-In empanelment; it prepares your organization to pass whichever CERT-In assessment your regulator requires.

Bitkosh's consultancy is organized around two advisory practices: cyber security and secure development. Cyber security covers items like ISO 27001 implementation, DPDP compliance, risk and vendor assessment, vCISO retainers and CERT-In readiness. Secure development covers DevSecOps pipeline hardening, application security testing and secure development training. Both are delivered by the same engineers who build Bitkosh's compliance platform, project-based, on retainer or as a workshop.

Yes. Bitkosh's consultancy is delivered project-based, on retainer, or as a standalone workshop, so a single focused session is a valid engagement shape on its own. Whichever format you choose still goes through a discovery call and a written statement of work with explicit inclusions, exclusions, timeline and pricing before work starts.

Findings go through checkpoints and documented escalation paths during the execution phase, so disagreements are raised and resolved as part of the auditable record rather than argued over after delivery. Every decision and action taken during the engagement is logged, which is what gets carried into the leadership readout and close-out workshop at the end.

POA&M stands for Plan of Action and Milestones, and it is one of the standard deliverables from a Bitkosh compliance audit: a risk-rated remediation register that lists what needs fixing, in priority order, alongside the technical findings and evidence that support each entry. It is meant to be worked from directly, not just filed away.

Yes. Bitkosh's consultancy deliverables include a prioritised remediation roadmap with named owners and timelines for each item, not just a list of problems. That way accountability for closing a finding sits with a specific person on your team from the moment the report lands, rather than being assigned informally after the fact.

The leadership readout is part of the Assure stage of a Bitkosh compliance audit, alongside technical evidence, prioritized actions and residual-risk decisions. It is written for people who need to sign off on the outcome rather than fix it themselves, covering what was found, what matters most, and which risks the business is choosing to accept versus remediate.

Bitkosh built its own Compliance Management Platform™, so every audit runs through the same tool that does control mapping and evidence collection, giving you a live dashboard instead of a static report. Most audit firms, by contrast, hand over a PDF and disappear until the next renewal cycle. Auditing is something we do with software we built, not a one-off document exercise.

Bitkosh's Compliance Management Platform™ is built as a 36-framework system, so consultants and auditors work from the same control libraries, crosswalks and evidence workflows across engagements rather than starting from scratch for each client. That breadth is also what makes the multi-framework crosswalk service possible, mapping overlapping controls across frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and DPDP.

Yes, consultancy deliverables at Bitkosh are peer-reviewed before they reach you, alongside severity-rated findings and a prioritised remediation roadmap. That review happens before the close-out walkthrough, so the report your team and leadership see has already been checked internally rather than being the first draft an engineer produced.

A compliance audit runs through Bitkosh's Compliance Management Platform™ and covers Indian regulatory audits, data privacy compliance, global security frameworks and posture assessments. Consultancy is advisory work delivered as two practices, cyber security and secure development, project-based, on retainer or as a workshop. Both follow the same scope, execute, assure discipline, but consultancy is scoped around a specific business driver rather than a regulatory audit cycle.

Yes. Bitkosh's Risk & Vendor Assessment service builds risk registers aligned to ISO 27005 or NIST, rather than an informal spreadsheet of concerns. That same engagement also covers third-party security reviews and cloud posture audits against CIS Benchmarks across AWS, Azure and GCP, so the risk register reflects both internal and vendor exposure.

Because a Bitkosh statement of work is meant to prevent disputes later, not just describe the work. It spells out explicit inclusions and exclusions alongside timeline, pricing and acceptance criteria, so both sides agree upfront on exactly what a fixed price does and does not cover. That written boundary is what the delivery team and your leadership both work from.

Yes, the executive summary Bitkosh produces is written to be readable by your board or by customers doing security due diligence on you, not just your internal technical team. It sits alongside the detailed technical findings and evidence, so you can share the summary externally while keeping the full evidence set for internal remediation work.

Yes. Bitkosh Technologies Private Limited is registered with the Registrar of Companies under CIN U62011OD2026PTC054718, incorporated 24 July 2026, and holds GSTIN 21AAOCB9733A1ZX. It is DPIIT recognised and Udyam registered, with its registered office in Gadadharpur, Tigiria, Athagarh, Dist. Kataka, Odisha 754030. This registration is separate from the third-party certifications Bitkosh helps its clients pursue.

No. Bitkosh's compliance line puts you with a compliance engineer, not a sales rep, so the first conversation is with someone who works on audits directly rather than an account manager. That contact point stays the same whether the engagement is a commercial project or a government program, and it applies before any scoping or pricing conversation happens.

Bitkosh positions its India-first expertise as an advantage over global consultancies, which often treat DPDP Act, CERT-In and RBI requirements as a secondary specialism rather than a core focus. Its consultants work from the same control libraries and evidence workflows built into Bitkosh's own compliance platform, so India-specific regulatory nuance is handled directly rather than adapted from a generic global framework.

Yes. Bitkosh's DPDP Act 2023 Compliance consultancy explicitly includes advisory on Significant Data Fiduciary obligations, alongside data mapping, privacy impact assessments, consent management design and Data Protection Officer advisory. This sits within the consultancy practice rather than the flat-rate DPDP Compliance Audit, so it is scoped as part of a broader advisory engagement.

Yes. SOC 2 Readiness Consulting appears as its own line item under Bitkosh's productized pricing, alongside the DPDP Compliance Audit and ISO 27001 Readiness Consulting, rather than being bundled into a general custom-quoted audit. Like those two services, it is offered at a flat starting rate for standard-scope engagements, with exact inclusions confirmed once your scope is known.

Yes, Bitkosh Technologies Private Limited is registered under GSTIN 21AAOCB9733A1ZX, so every invoice for a compliance audit or consultancy engagement carries GST details as standard. This sits alongside the company's incorporation under CIN U62011OD2026PTC054718 with the Registrar of Companies, Kataka, so clients get tax-compliant documentation for procurement and accounting without needing to request it separately.

Yes, Bitkosh Technologies Private Limited is DPIIT recognised and Udyam registered, in addition to being incorporated with the Registrar of Companies, Kataka under CIN U62011OD2026PTC054718. These are Indian government business registrations confirming startup and MSME status. They are separate from security certification. Bitkosh does not hold ISO or CERT-In certifications itself; it helps clients prepare for and meet those requirements.