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RBI IT Governance Master Direction compliance, run as a living system
RBI's Master Direction on IT Governance, Risk, Controls and Assurance Practices consolidates the central bank's expectations for IT governance structures, strategy, risk management, outsourcing and audit in regulated entities.
Who it applies to
Banks, NBFCs and other RBI-regulated entities required to maintain board-level IT governance structures and assurance practices.
What it demands
IT governance structures
IT Strategy Committee of the board, IT Steering Committee, defined roles and reporting lines.
IT risk management
Periodic IT risk assessment with documented methodology and mitigation.
Outsourcing governance
Due diligence, contracts, monitoring and exit strategies for outsourced IT services.
Audit & assurance
Periodic IS audit with findings tracked to closure before competent authority.
How Compli-Once runs it
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The Master Direction modelled as a first-class framework beside RBI CSF, sharing controls where they overlap.
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Outsourced providers assessed in third-party risk: tiered register, portal responses, expiry-tracked evidence.
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IS audit findings tracked to closure with owners, due dates and a provable repeat-finding rate.
What you already satisfy
RBI IT Governance Master Direction 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
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
What is the RBI IT Governance Master Direction?
It is RBI's consolidated direction on IT governance, risk, controls and assurance for regulated entities. It mandates board-level IT governance structures, periodic IT risk assessment, outsourcing governance and IS audit with tracked closure.
How are board IT committee reports produced?
From live control state. Posture, risk distribution and open corrective actions are computed continuously, so the committee pack is a dashboard extract rather than a quarterly assembly exercise.
How is outsourcing risk managed?
Outsourced providers sit in the criticality-tiered vendor register. Assessments run through a portal, scores update automatically, and evidence expiry flags itself before a review finds it.
Does it integrate with our existing ISMS?
Yes. ISO 27001 controls map to the Master Direction through the crosswalk, so existing work satisfies both where obligations overlap.