India Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023

Continuous scanning checks each engine and version against known CVEs, missing patches, end-of-life versions, and hardening benchmarks, and extends to the network: exposed listeners, unexpected reachability, weak TLS, and drift from the documented baseline. Findings rank by exploitability and by the classification of the data at risk, so the same CVE sits differently in the queue on classified data than on a development copy — and the scan history is the evidence that the control operated continuously rather than quarterly.

Notification clocks start when you become aware, so detection latency is the whole exposure. Behavioural baselines score each deviation as it happens and flag it in under a second, rather than surfacing it in a weekly review. Severity is decided at the collector and routed immediately, so the window between the access and someone knowing about it is measured in seconds — and the audit trail behind it already holds what was reached, by whom, and when.

A record of processing is only as good as the layer producing it. Real-time SQL auditing captures every statement against the data — the identity, the session, the client, the objects touched, the outcome — with no nightly batch window where activity goes unrecorded. Classification is what makes that a record of *regulated* data rather than a log of everything: it tells you which tables are in scope, so the register describes the processing you actually have to declare. Policy templates then produce it in the shape the framework asks for, instead of leaving you to assemble it from raw logs the week before an inspection.

Retention obligations are easy to state and expensive to meet, because the cost is in keeping the record queryable rather than merely stored. Audit events land in columnar storage on immutable object storage, so a multi-year window costs object-storage prices and is still searchable in seconds when an examiner asks for a sample. Each record carries a verification hash, so what you produce years later is demonstrably what was written at the time.