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Business Impact Analysis — The foundation every continuity and recovery plan depends on
SIRI Security runs a structured Business Impact Analysis identifying which processes are genuinely critical, their dependencies, and how much downtime each can actually tolerate — the number every continuity and DR plan should be built from.
62%Of cloud detections
6 HRCERT-In notification window
29.44LIncidents CERT-In handled
Why governance is now a named board obligation
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Effective
31 JUL 2026
RBI's 2026 Framework requires board-level oversight of cyber resilience, not delegation to IT alone — governance-layer work exists to make that oversight substantive.
Named requirement
SEBI CSCRF
SEBI's framework names governance and reporting obligations for regulated intermediaries beyond technical controls alone.
Baseline
6 HR WINDOW
CERT-In's notification window depends on governance structures — defined roles and escalation paths — already being in place before an incident starts the clock.
Growing gap
62% CLOUD
Cloud misconfiguration and IAM exploitation account for 62% of detections in cloud environments (DSCI) — a governance and posture-management gap as much as a technical one.
Named requirement
DPDPA
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act expects demonstrable data governance, not just a written policy.
Governance the board can actually act on
What is a Business Impact Analysis?
A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) systematically identifies your organisation's critical business processes, the systems and people they depend on, and the maximum tolerable downtime and data loss for each — the foundational input for continuity planning, disaster recovery, and resilience work.
Done properly, a BIA often surprises leadership — processes assumed to be critical turn out to tolerate more downtime than expected, while some genuinely critical dependencies were never on anyone's radar until they were mapped explicitly.
Maturity is measured, not assumed
62% of cloud detections trace to misconfiguration and IAM exploitation (DSCI) — the class of gap a structured maturity or posture assessment is built to surface before the board is asked to sign off on resilience.
SIRI Security delivers Business Impact Analysis 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 governance underdeveloped
Governance gaps rarely show up until a board is asked a direct question it can't answer.
01 — OVERSIGHT
“IT owns cyber risk, not the board”
RBI's 2026 Framework and SEBI's CSCRF both expect board-level oversight of cyber resilience directly, not a delegated report nobody reads.
02 — MEASUREMENT
“We feel reasonably mature”
Maturity assessed informally rarely survives a structured review — a scored assessment is what turns a feeling into a defensible position.
03 — PLANNING
“Our BCP/DR plan exists, so we're covered”
An untested BCP/DR plan is a document, not a capability — governance work exists to confirm it actually holds up under a real scenario.
04 — DATA
“Our data governance policy covers our DPDPA obligations”
A policy alone doesn't demonstrate the data mapping, retention discipline, and access governance DPDPA increasingly expects to see evidenced.
What Business Impact Analysis covers
What's included, start to finish
A structured programme the board can actually engage with, not a technical report handed up unread.
01
Process criticality mapping
Which business processes actually matter most, ranked objectively rather than by department loudness.
02
Dependency identification
Systems, people, vendors, and data each critical process actually depends on.
03
Maximum tolerable downtime scoring
A realistic, agreed downtime tolerance for each critical process.
04
Financial & operational impact quantification
What an outage of each process actually costs, in terms leadership understands.
05
BIA report & recommendations
A structured report that feeds directly into BCP/DR planning and resilience work.
Evidence, not guesswork
No formal governance vs. informal effort vs. a SIRI-supported programme
The gap surfaces exactly when a board or regulator asks for a substantive answer.
| Approach | No formal programme | Informal / ad hoc | SIRI Business Impact Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Board-level reporting | None | Occasional | Structured, recurring |
| Scored maturity baseline | No | No | Included |
| BCP/DR testing | No | Rare | Scheduled |
| Regulatory alignment (RBI/SEBI) | No | Assumed | Assessed directly |
| Roadmap with prioritisation | No | Informal | Included |
Sources: RBI (Commercial Banks — Cybersecurity, Technology: Risk, Resilience and Assurance Framework) Directions, 2026; SEBI Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF); Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023; DSCI cloud detection data. Summarised for comparison.
Numbers every board should know
What governance work is actually protecting against
62%
Of cloud detections
Trace to misconfiguration and IAM exploitation (DSCI) — a posture and governance gap as much as a technical one.
6 HR
CERT-In notification window
Depends on governance structures already being in place before an incident starts the clock.
29.44L
Incidents CERT-In handled
In the latest reporting year — the scale governance programmes are measured against.
70%
Of malware detections
Are trojans and file infectors (Seqrite 2026).
Why SIRI for Business Impact Analysis specifically
Governance built by the team that also answers to regulators
The same practice that builds your governance layer files your regulatory filings when a real incident tests it.
01
Programmes built by SIRI's GRC and Compliance lead
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.
02
Financial-sector governance covered directly
Deepa Menon, Senior Associate, advises banks, NBFCs, and payment aggregators directly on RBI licensing, SEBI CSCRF, and financial-sector cyber resilience.
03
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.
04
Technical maturity verified, not self-reported
Vikram Rao, SIRI's Head of Cybersecurity, directs offensive security and incident response and leads CERT-In breach containment for enterprise clients.
Who this is built for
Organisations this governance service is built for
Banks, NBFCs & insurers
Boards preparing a resilience report
Organisations scaling past informal governance
Acquirers running security due diligence
SEBI-regulated intermediaries
How we work
From scoping to ongoing delivery
01
Current-State Assessment
We assess where you stand today against the specific outcome this service is meant to achieve.
Week 102
Programme Design
We design the specific programme, policy, or plan your organisation needs, sized appropriately for you.
Weeks 2–303
Implementation Support
We help implement alongside your team so the programme survives and runs after we leave.
Week 4+04
Review & Continuous Improvement
A review cadence keeps it current as your organisation and risk landscape change.
OngoingFrequently asked
Business Impact Analysis, answered directly
Is this a standalone deliverable or part of a bigger programme?
It can be standalone, but it's most valuable as the foundation for our BCP/DR Planning or Cyber Resilience engagements.
How do you gather this information?
Structured interviews and workshops with process owners across the business, not just IT.
How long does this take?
Most engagements in this category run 3 to 8 weeks depending on organisational size and current maturity.
Who runs this day to day?
A senior SIRI Security governance consultant leads the engagement, coordinating with SIRI Law LLP wherever legal or regulatory interpretation is needed.
Give the board a real answer
Scope Business Impact Analysis.
Most engagements start with a scored baseline assessment before recommending a governance roadmap.
Talk to SIRI Security: +91 79819 12046
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