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IRDAI Compliance Audit

Insurance sector information and cyber security guidelines audit.

Every engagement includes manual validation, a two audience report and free re-testing.

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What this actually is

IRDAI's information and cyber security guidelines apply to insurers, brokers, corporate agents and third-party administrators. The regulator expects a named Chief Information Security Officer, an annual audit by a qualified external party, and a board that can evidence oversight.

Insurance carries an unusual data risk profile. You hold health records, financial history and claims detail, often for decades, and frequently share them with hospitals, surveyors and repair networks who sit outside your control.

We audit against the guidelines, and we pay particular attention to the third parties in your claims chain, because that is where most incidents in this sector begin.

What we go after

  • Gap assessment against the IRDAI guidelines
  • CISO role, reporting line and board oversight evidence
  • Policy administration and claims platform testing
  • Third-party risk across TPAs, hospitals and surveyors
  • Policyholder data privacy and DPDP alignment
  • Business continuity and disaster recovery testing
  • Incident reporting workflow
  • Annual audit report preparation

How we run it

  1. 01

    Gap assessment

    We measure you against the standard as it is actually audited, not as it reads on paper.

  2. 02

    Remediation plan

    Every gap gets an owner, an effort estimate and a date. You decide what lands this quarter.

  3. 03

    Implement and evidence

    We write the policy, build the control and collect the artefact that proves it is working.

  4. 04

    Internal audit

    A dry run under audit conditions, so nothing in the real one is a surprise.

  5. 05

    Certify and maintain

    We sit on your side of the table for the audit, then keep the evidence current between cycles.

What you receive

  • Gap assessment and remediation plan
  • Annual information and cyber security audit report
  • Third-party risk assessment across the claims chain
  • Board reporting pack

Who needs this

Life and general insurers, insurance brokers, corporate agents, web aggregators and third-party administrators.

How long it takes

Six to twelve weeks for the annual audit cycle.

Standards this satisfies

  • IRDAI guidelines
  • ISO 27001
  • DPDP Act
  • CERT-In

Why it matters

Almost nobody starts a certification because they want one. It starts because a customer will not sign without it, a regulator has asked, or a deal is sitting still while procurement waits for evidence. The commercial driver is real and it is worth being honest that it, rather than security, is usually what pays for the programme.

The security benefit is real too, but it comes from a specific place: the discipline of having to evidence that a control operated over a period, rather than that it was configured once. That is the part that changes behaviour, and it is also the part organisations consistently underestimate.

Choose how you want this delivered

Most of the price difference between quotes comes down to this one choice, and it is rarely explained. Pick one to see what it covers, what it suits and what it costs you.

Gap assessment, then we work alongside your team through remediation, internal audit and the certification audit itself. Your people do the work and own the outcome, which is what makes the management system survive after we leave. This is what most organisations should choose.

Choose this when

  • You have a team who can absorb the work alongside their day job
  • You want the capability to remain in-house afterwards
  • First certification where documentation is the main gap

Effort and cost

Moderate. The calendar is longer than a managed programme because the work competes with everyone's existing responsibilities.

Scope it yourself, before you call anyone

Answer a few questions and you get an indicative number, the working behind it and what your answers tell us. It runs in your browser, so nothing you type reaches us.

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Which framework are you going for?

What we look for, and keep finding

These are the classes of problem this work exists to surface. Not every engagement finds all of them, but these are the ones that turn up often enough to be worth naming.

  • Controls that exist on paper only

    The policy says quarterly access reviews. The evidence shows one, eighteen months ago, and it was not completed. This is the single most common audit finding across every framework.

  • Scope drawn too narrowly

    A certificate covering a subset of the business that customers assume covers all of it. Auditors check the boundary; buyers rarely do. Getting scope right is the most consequential early decision.

  • Evidence that cannot be reproduced

    A screenshot proves a control was configured on the day someone took it. A framework wants proof it operated throughout the period. Those are very different, and the gap only appears at the audit.

  • Exceptions with no expiry

    Risk accepted once, recorded, and never revisited. Over a few years these accumulate into an undocumented second control framework nobody is managing.

  • Third parties outside the boundary

    Processing carried out by a supplier who was assessed at onboarding and never since, while your obligation for their handling of your data continues regardless.

Who runs your engagement

A lead assessor who has sat on the other side of the table

Compliance work is led by an assessor who has taken organisations through certification, not by a consultant reading the standard for the first time with you. They know which findings a certification body will actually raise, which is a different list from what the standard technically says.

Questions we get asked

Can the same firm advise and audit?

For independence, no. Where we have done remediation work we bring in an independent audit partner, or we audit and someone else remediates. We will tell you which side we are on before we start.

Often scoped alongside

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