IRDAI Cybersecurity Compliance: Insurance Companies, ISNP Audit & Broker/TPA Assessments
End-to-end IRDAI compliance for life, general, health insurers, ISNP platforms, insurance brokers, and TPAs. CERT-In empanelled auditor delivering regulator-ready reports, gap assessments, and remediation support across every IRDAI cyber mandate.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) mandates cybersecurity controls across the entire insurance value chain. Whether you operate as an insurance company, run an Insurance Self-Network Platform (ISNP), or function as an insurance broker or Third-Party Administrator, IRDAI expects documented evidence of cybersecurity governance, technical controls, incident response readiness, and periodic audits by CERT-In empanelled auditors. Security Brigade has delivered IRDAI cybersecurity audits for insurers, ISNP platforms, and intermediaries, helping regulated entities achieve and maintain compliance without disrupting business operations.
Trusted by India's leading enterprises
Assess
Comprehensive gap assessment against IRDAI Information and Cybersecurity Guidelines, mapping your current controls, policies, and technical posture to every regulatory requirement applicable to your entity type.
Remediate
Prioritized remediation roadmap with practical guidance on closing gaps. Security Brigade supports you through policy development, technical hardening, architecture changes, and evidence preparation.
Certify
Final compliance audit by our CERT-In empanelled team, producing a regulator-ready audit report with control attestation, evidence documentation, and executive summary for your board and IRDAI submission.
What is IRDAI Cybersecurity Compliance?
IRDAI cybersecurity compliance refers to the mandatory information security and cyber resilience requirements imposed by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India on insurance companies, Insurance Self-Network Platforms (ISNPs), insurance brokers, and Third-Party Administrators.
Insurance Companies: IRDAI Information and Cybersecurity Guidelines
Life insurers, general insurers, health insurers, and reinsurers under the IRDAI cybersecurity mandate
Cybersecurity Governance
Board-approved information security policy, CISO appointment, cybersecurity committee, and governance reporting structure.
VAPT and IS Audit
Periodic vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and information systems audit of core insurance and IT systems.
Business Continuity and DR
BCP and disaster recovery planning with documented testing, recovery time objectives, and failover validation.
Incident Response
Documented incident response plan, CERT-In notification readiness, escalation procedures, and forensic investigation capability.
Policyholder Data Protection
Controls for protecting customer PII, policy data, health records, claims information, and nominee details across systems.
Vendor and Third-Party Risk
Assessment of third-party service providers, outsourced IT, cloud vendors, and integration partners handling insurance data.
Methodology
6 stages. Audit-ready results.
Every engagement follows this process through Lemon, our proprietary audit management platform.
Security Brigade follows a structured audit methodology designed for IRDAI-regulated entities. Each engagement is scoped to the entity type, whether insurance company, ISNP platform, insurance broker, or TPA, and mapped to the specific IRDAI guidelines and controls applicable to that entity. The methodology ensures that the audit is comprehensive, evidence-backed, and produces a report that meets IRDAI submission expectations while also being actionable for your technology and security teams.
Scoping and Regulatory Mapping
Identify entity type, applicable IRDAI guidelines, audit scope, systems in scope, third-party integrations, and regulatory submission timeline. For ISNP audits, scope includes the complete platform architecture and pre-launch requirements.
Document and Policy Review
Review information security policies, cybersecurity governance documentation, BCP/DR plans, incident response procedures, vendor agreements, and prior audit reports against IRDAI requirements.
Technical Assessment
Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing of in-scope applications, networks, infrastructure, and cloud environments. Application security testing for core insurance platforms, ISNP portals, claims systems, and broker management tools.
Controls Validation and Evidence Collection
Validate implementation of access controls, encryption, logging, monitoring, patch management, change management, backup and recovery, and incident response. Collect evidence through system demonstrations, configuration review, and interviews.
Gap Analysis and Remediation Support
Document gaps with risk ratings, provide prioritized remediation roadmap with practical implementation guidance, and support your team through closure of critical and high findings.
Regulator-Ready Report and Attestation
Final audit report structured for IRDAI submission including scope, methodology, control status, findings, evidence references, remediation status, and compliance attestation signed by the CERT-In empanelled auditor.
"We have SAP, SCADA, 200+ web apps, and factories running legacy systems. Most security firms understand IT or OT — not both. Security Brigade tested our corporate network, our plant floor, our SAP interfaces, and our cloud migration path in one engagement with one methodology. The OT findings alone justified the engagement, but the real value was having everything in a single risk register."
The Platform
Powered by Lemon
Most firms rely on individual tester skill. We built a platform that makes quality structural — informed by 6,700+ previous assessments.
Structured Evidence Collection
Centralized evidence repository linked to each IRDAI control requirement, eliminating last-minute evidence scrambles.
Findings and Remediation Tracking
Every finding is logged with severity, owner, deadline, and status. Remediation progress is visible to your team in real time.
Multi-Tier Review Workflow
Findings and reports pass through L1, L2, and L3 review stages before reaching you, ensuring audit quality and consistency.
Compliance-Ready
Audit-ready reporting for every framework
As a CERT-In empanelled firm, our reports are accepted by Indian regulators and meet global framework requirements.
Industries
700+ clients across verticals
Every type of application architecture and business logic pattern — tested.
Quality Assurance
L1, L2, L3 Audit Quality Assurance
Every IRDAI audit report passes through three levels of review before delivery
Regulatory audit reports carry the weight of your compliance status. A report with inconsistencies, missing evidence references, or inaccurate control assessments creates problems with regulators and erodes trust with your board. Security Brigade enforces a three-tier quality assurance process on every engagement to ensure the audit report you receive is accurate, complete, and regulator-ready.
L1: Consultant Review
The primary auditor validates all findings against evidence, confirms severity ratings, and ensures methodology was followed consistently.
L2: Technical Lead Review
A senior technical lead reviews findings for accuracy, completeness, and consistency. Validates that all in-scope controls have been assessed.
L3: Approval and Sign-Off
Final review by the engagement manager ensures regulatory alignment, report structure, evidence linkages, and CERT-In empanelled auditor attestation.
Deliverables
What you get
Reports for two audiences — executives who need the risk picture, and developers who need to fix the issues. With code-level guidance, not vague advice.
IRDAI Compliance Audit Report
The primary regulator-submission document covering scope, methodology, control assessment, findings, evidence, and compliance attestation signed by CERT-In empanelled auditor.
Gap Analysis Report
Detailed gap assessment mapping each IRDAI requirement to current compliance status, risk rating, evidence gaps, and recommended remediation.
VAPT and Technical Assessment Reports
Vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and application security reports for in-scope systems with proof-of-concept, severity, and remediation guidance.
Remediation Roadmap
Prioritized remediation plan with owner assignment, target closure dates, severity-based prioritization, and practical implementation guidance.
Executive Summary and Board Pack
Management presentation summarizing compliance posture, key risks, remediation progress, and recommended next steps for board and audit committee.
Closure Validation Report
Post-remediation revalidation report confirming that identified gaps have been closed, with evidence of successful remediation.
ISNP Pre-Launch Certification Report
For ISNP engagements, the dedicated pre-launch certification artifact required for IRDAI approval before the platform goes live.
Data Flow and Architecture Annexure
Documentation of system architecture, data flows, third-party integrations, and storage locations for policyholder and claims data.
Continuous Compliance with ShadowMap
The audit gives you a snapshot. ShadowMap gives you the always-on view.
An annual audit proves your posture at a single point in time. Between audits, attack surfaces drift, credentials leak, sub-domains get added, vendors get breached. ShadowMap watches the boundary continuously so the next audit isn't a surprise.
Attack Surface Area
Continuous discovery of internet-facing assets — sub-domains, APIs, cloud resources, open ports, SSL certificates, technology stack.
Audits are point-in-time. ShadowMap watches your boundary daily.
Explore on ShadowMapCART · Continuous Automated Red Teaming
Automated vulnerability detection and validation on your live attack surface — exploit context delivered, not just scanner noise.
Annual audits prove a moment. CART proves resilience 24/7.
Explore on ShadowMapWhat is an ISNP audit and who needs it?
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