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DSPM — Continuous visibility, not a one-time snapshot
Data Security Posture Management gives you continuous, automated visibility into where sensitive data lives across your cloud environment and who can reach it — rather than relying on a point-in-time audit that's outdated within months.
62%Of cloud detections
6 HRCERT-In notification window
29.44LIncidents CERT-In handled
Why data-layer assurance is now explicit
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Named requirement
DPDPA
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act names specific obligations — reasonable security safeguards, breach notification, data minimisation — that a data-layer audit has to test against directly.
Baseline
6 HR WINDOW
CERT-In's breach-notification window depends on knowing what data was exposed and how — which is exactly what data security auditing establishes in advance.
Growing gap
62% CLOUD
Cloud misconfiguration and IAM exploitation account for 62% of detections in cloud environments (DSCI) — the majority of it touching data stores directly.
Cross-border
GDPR
Organisations processing EU personal data carry GDPR obligations in parallel with DPDPA — a data audit scoped to one alone can leave the other exposed.
Baseline
70% MALWARE
Trojans and file infectors make up 70% of malware detections (Seqrite 2026) — relevant to how a breach simulation is scoped.
Where the data actually sits, not where policy says it sits
What is DSPM?
DSPM (Data Security Posture Management) is the practice — and the tooling — of continuously discovering sensitive data across cloud data stores, classifying it, and monitoring access and exposure as your environment changes, rather than relying on a periodic manual audit.
SIRI Security helps assess DSPM tooling options, configure them against your actual cloud environment, and tune alerting so your team gets meaningful signal about new exposure rather than noise.
Most data exposure is a configuration problem, not a hacking problem
62% of detections in cloud environments trace to misconfiguration and IAM exploitation (DSCI) — the exact failure mode data-layer auditing is built to catch before an attacker does.
SIRI Security delivers DSPM to this standard directly — practitioner-led, documented, and connected to SIRI Law LLP's legal and regulatory response if a finding ever needs to go further.
What organisations get wrong
Four assumptions that leave sensitive data unaccounted for
Data-layer risk rarely looks like a hack — it looks like a setting nobody reviewed.
01 — VISIBILITY
“We know where our sensitive data lives”
Data sprawls across test environments, backups, and third-party tools far faster than data maps get updated — most organisations are auditing an outdated picture.
02 — SCOPE
“Our privacy policy covers our obligations”
A policy document doesn't test whether the technical controls behind it — masking, access limits, retention enforcement — actually exist.
03 — READINESS
“We'll figure out breach response if it happens”
Untested breach response means discovering your notification obligations for the first time under a 6-hour clock — not the moment to learn the process.
04 — SCOPE
“DPDPA compliance covers our global obligations too”
DPDPA and GDPR overlap but aren't identical — an organisation with EU data subjects needs both assessed, not one assumed to cover the other.
What DSPM covers
What's included, start to finish
A practical audit of where data actually sits and how it's actually protected — not a policy-only review.
01
DSPM tooling assessment
Evaluating and selecting the right DSPM approach for your cloud environment and budget.
02
Data discovery & classification
Automated, continuous discovery of sensitive data across cloud data stores.
03
Exposure & access monitoring
Ongoing visibility into who and what can reach sensitive data, as your environment changes.
04
Alert tuning
Configuring alerting to flag genuine new exposure without drowning your team in noise.
05
Integration with existing security stack
Connecting DSPM findings into your SIEM/SOAR workflow rather than a standalone dashboard.
Evidence, not guesswork
No data audit vs. policy-only review vs. a SIRI data assessment
The gap between paperwork and tested reality is exactly where most data exposure lives.
| Approach | No data audit | Policy review only | SIRI DSPM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical control testing | None | Not covered | Included |
| Data discovery across environments | No | Assumed accurate | Directly tested |
| DPDPA + GDPR coverage | N/A | Often one only | Both, where applicable |
| Breach simulation | No | No | Included where scoped |
| Evidence for a vendor questionnaire | No | Partial | Formal report |
Sources: Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (India); CERT-In 2022 Directions; EU GDPR; DSCI cloud detection data. Summarised for comparison; confirm current obligations applicable to your data footprint.
Numbers every board should know
What data-layer assurance is actually catching
62%
Of cloud detections
Trace to misconfiguration and IAM exploitation (DSCI) — much of it touching data stores directly.
6 HR
CERT-In notification window
From discovery — the deadline a data audit exists to make achievable.
29.44L
Incidents CERT-In handled
In the latest reporting year — the scale data exposure risk sits against.
70%
Of malware detections
Are trojans and file infectors (Seqrite 2026), a common precursor to data-layer compromise.
Why SIRI for DSPM specifically
Data assurance connected directly to your legal obligations
The same roof that audits your data controls drafts your DPDPA and CERT-In filings if a real incident follows.
01
Findings connected directly to legal exposure
SIRI Security runs under the same roof as SIRI Law LLP — when a finding carries real legal exposure, the engagement can be brought under attorney-client privilege from day one, not bolted on after the fact.
02
Built by the team that files under DPDPA and CERT-In
Sneha Iyer, Associate Partner and Head of GRC and Compliance, has delivered ISO 27001, SOC 2, and SEBI CSCRF programmes across the client base this catalogue serves.
03
Financial-sector data obligations covered directly
Deepa Menon, Senior Associate, advises banks, NBFCs, and payment aggregators directly on RBI licensing, SEBI CSCRF, and financial-sector cyber resilience.
04
Court-admissible when a breach becomes a dispute
Ananya Krishnan, SIRI's Digital Forensics Lead, prepares court-admissible forensic reports and testifies as an expert witness when findings end up in front of a judge.
Who this is built for
Organisations this data & privacy service is built for
Banks, NBFCs & payment aggregators
SaaS companies handling customer data
Organisations with EU data subjects
Healthcare & insurance data handlers
Enterprise vendors facing data-handling questionnaires
How we work
From scoping to ongoing delivery
01
Scoping & Data Mapping
We identify what data and systems are actually in scope before any testing or audit work begins.
Week 102
Assessment
Hands-on review or testing carried out by our specialists, with evidence documented for every finding.
Weeks 2–303
Reporting & Risk Rating
Findings written up with business impact and clear prioritisation, not just a raw output dump.
Week 4+04
Remediation Support
We remain available to your team while findings are fixed, and confirm closure on request.
OngoingFrequently asked
DSPM, answered directly
Do you provide the DSPM tool, or configure ours?
We can advise on tooling selection or configure and tune a platform you've already chosen — this is a services engagement, not a licence sale.
How is this different from the Cloud Security Assessment?
Cloud Security Assessment reviews overall cloud configuration; DSPM is specifically about continuous data-level visibility and exposure monitoring.
How long does this take?
Most engagements in this category run 1 to 3 weeks depending on the volume of data and systems in scope.
Who does the work?
Senior SIRI Security specialists carry out every engagement personally, coordinating with SIRI Law LLP wherever a finding has regulatory implications.
Know where your data actually sits
Scope DSPM.
Most engagements start with a short scoping call to confirm data footprint, regulatory exposure, and timeline.
Talk to SIRI Security: +91 79819 12046
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