For the institutions whose downtime is a headline. And whose auditors don't take excuses.
IN BRIEF.
RBI Master Directions on Cyber Resilience compliance, SEBI Cybersecurity Framework alignment, IRDAI Information Security Guidelines, DPDP Act 2023 controls, and CERT-In incident-response workflows. Multi-DC active-active architectures for core banking (Finacle, TCS BaNCS, Oracle Flexcube, Temenos). Sub-100 ms RTT to Mumbai banking exchanges. 24/7 SOC integrated with CERT-In reporting.
CIOs and CISOs of scheduled commercial banks, small finance banks, payment banks, NBFCs across all four RBI Scale Based Regulation tiers, insurance companies, AMCs, brokerages, exchanges, and payment platforms operating in India.
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What You Already Know
You already know your peak transaction hours line up with UPI's peak. That your slowest failover matters more than your fastest deployment. That the branch in Coimbatore still runs on a fibre loop laid in 2009, and the digital-only banking arm you launched last quarter runs on Azure Central India, and both are first-class citizens in your CIO's Monday morning.
You know that RBI's next Master Direction lands with no warning and eighteen months of implementation compressed into six. That SEBI reads the same CERT-In incident report your board does. That your customer will forgive a rate hike, but never a spinning wheel at the checkout page.
What You Need
You need an infrastructure partner who reads the Master Directions the day they're published. Who has delivered for a scheduled commercial bank and a small finance bank and a Tier-3 NBFC and can tell you why the reference architectures are different. Who knows that the CISO who signs off on the design is the one who has to defend it in the audit six quarters later.
That's the infrastructure Proactive Data Systems has been building for Indian BFSI for over three decades.
The infrastructure. Named.
Proactive delivers six specific outcomes for Indian financial services infrastructure:
Sub-100 millisecond RTT from every branch to Mumbai banking exchanges. Enforced by SLA, monitored on Cisco ThousandEyes, reportable to your operations committee.
Zero-tolerance change windows managed inside RBI-approved windows, with pre-approved rollback plans reviewed by your CISO before Proactive touches production.
RBI Master Directions on Cyber Resilience compliance mapped to specific controls, with evidence packs that satisfy your internal auditor without a second request.
SEBI Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framework compliance for AMCs, brokerages, exchanges, and depositories.
Multi-DC active-active architectures for core banking systems (Infosys Finacle, TCS BaNCS, Oracle Flexcube, Temenos T24) meeting sub-second RTO on Tier-0 systems.
DPDP Act 2023 and CERT-In six-hour reporting integrated with your SOC, with pre-drafted notification templates that start filling the moment an incident is confirmed.
Every architecture, tuned for the sector.
Each of Proactive's six architectures is delivered with BFSI-specific patterns baked in.
Cisco Meraki SD-WAN or Catalyst SD-WAN across branch networks, for banks running 200 seats or 20,000. QoS for UPI. Zero-touch provisioning for the next thirty branches you'll open this year. Real-time observability for RBI-mandated uptime reporting.
Multi-DC active-active for core banking. Cisco HCI or Nutanix for workloads that used to demand dedicated blade infrastructure. Cohesity for backup and disaster recovery meeting RBI's Tier-0 RTO expectations.
Zero trust for a workforce spanning branch teller and remote developer. RBI Master Directions and SEBI framework mapped to specific controls. SOC integration with CERT-In workflows. Proactive's MDR turns fourteen-day MTTDs into eight-hour ones, with an evidence trail your auditor can read cold.
Cisco Webex Calling for branch employees who still take customer calls. Webex Contact Center analytics that show queue-level pain before it becomes a complaint. Meeting rooms designed for regulator visits that just work.
Branch-grade cabling that survives forklift wars and monsoon flooding. Data center cabling to TIA-942 standard. Documented to schematic, warranted for twenty years.
24/7 NOC coverage that overlaps with RBI reporting windows. Named Proactive CSMs who understand your audit calendar. SLAs that hold, with service credits when Proactive misses.
Every control we ship comes with the paperwork.
Every architecture Proactive deploys in BFSI ships with a controls-mapping document. Which specific RBI Master Direction it addresses. Which SEBI framework requirement it satisfies. Which IRDAI clause it supports. Which DPDP Act obligation it fulfils. In a format your compliance team, your internal audit, and your external assessor can all read. Proactive keeps the mapping current between regulatory updates.
Cyber resilience baseline for all scheduled commercial banks
Control-by-control mapping; delta document within 30 days of each revision.
Payment security controls for banks and NPCI-regulated entities
Segmentation, encryption, monitoring architecture aligned to each control; NPCI audit evidence packs pre-formatted.
Cybersecurity baseline for AMCs, brokerages, exchanges, depositories
Framework-mapped architecture with evidence artefacts; SEBI-format quarterly reports.
ISMS and cyber security baseline for insurance companies
Guidelines-mapped controls; IRDAI-format audit responses.
6-hour cybersecurity incident reporting for all Indian entities
Pre-drafted notification template auto-populated on incident confirmation; SOC workflow integrated.
Data protection controls for all Indian data fiduciaries
Consent management, breach notification, data-principal request workflow, DPO evidence pack.
International ISMS and card data standards
Controls that satisfy ISO/PCI and RBI/SEBI/IRDAI simultaneously.
Numbers we didn't have to look up.
Proactive's BFSI engagements have produced the following measured outcomes in the last four quarters.
Drop in WAN incidents across 200 branches of a global insurance leader operating in India, over a four-month Meraki SD-WAN rollout completed in FY25.
MTTD on critical incidents at a national life insurance company, reduced from 14 days within the first quarter of Proactive's SOC engagement in FY25.
Failed number ports on the 12,000-seat Cisco Webex Calling migration for a manufacturing conglomerate whose treasury and banking operations were part of the same cutover in Q3 FY26.
“Our MTTD on critical incidents dropped from 14 days to under 8 hours within the first quarter of Proactive's SOC engagement.”
CISO, a private life insurance company
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