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RBI Digital Payment Security Controls compliance, run as a living system

The RBI Master Direction on Digital Payment Security Controls sets requirements for the governance and security of internet banking, mobile banking and card payment channels.

Who it applies to

Scheduled commercial banks, small finance banks, payments banks and credit card issuing NBFCs offering digital payment products in India.

What it demands

Governance

Board-approved policy for digital payment products, with periodic review.

Application security

Secure development, source code review, authentication and session management.

Customer protection

Transaction monitoring, alerting, and controls against unauthorised transactions.

How Compli-Once runs it

  • 1

    Directions modelled control by control, crosswalked to the RBI Cyber Security Framework.

  • 2

    Application security evidence such as code review and VAPT reports carries expiry tracking.

  • 3

    Board reporting computed from live control state, not reassembled each quarter.

What you already satisfy

RBI Digital Payment Security Controls overlaps with frameworks you may already run. The crosswalk quantifies existing coverage on day one, before you plan a single task.

Implement once, satisfy many

Access control
ISO 27001 A.5.15SOC 2 CC6.1SEBI CSCRF PR.AARBI CSF Access Mgmt
Incident response
ISO 27001 A.5.24SOC 2 CC7.3SEBI CSCRF 6-hour report
Change management
ISO 27001 A.8.32SOC 2 CC8.1PCI DSS v4 6.5

In a representative demonstration environment, 61% of a newly adopted regulatory framework was already satisfied by the existing ISO 27001 programme.

Illustrative, computed live per tenant in the platform.

Frequently asked questions

Does this overlap the RBI Cyber Security Framework?

Considerably. The crosswalk maps shared controls, and only the channel-specific requirements arrive as new work.

How is VAPT evidence handled?

As evidence with a validity window, so an expiring report raises a task before it becomes a finding.

You're done. We're not.

The audit ends. The readiness doesn't. See it on your own data.