# BitScore Cybertech LLP

> BitScore Cybertech LLP is an authorised Bitsight partner for the Bitsight Cyber Risk
> Intelligence Platform. It delivers objective 250–900 cyber security ratings, Security
> Posture Management (SPM), and Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) to enterprises
> worldwide. Founded December 2016.
> Registered under Startup India. Incorporated in Ahmedabad, India.

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## What a Bitsight Security Rating is

A Bitsight Security Rating is an objective measurement of an organisation's cyber security
performance, expressed on a **250–900 scale**. It is calculated daily from externally
observable, attacker-visible signals. It requires **no agent, no network access, no system
credentials, and no questionnaire**.

It is often described as a credit score for cyber risk: just as a credit score gives lenders
an objective measure of financial risk, a Bitsight rating gives insurers, regulators,
customers and boards an objective measure of cyber risk.

### Rating bands

| Band | Range | Interpretation |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advanced | 740–900 | Strong security, lower risk |
| Intermediate | 640–730 | Fair security, moderate risk |
| Basic | 250–630 | Poor security, higher risk |

### Risk vectors measured

Botnet infections, spam propagation, malware servers, unsolicited communications, Critical
Vulnerability Management, open ports, web application security, TLS/SSL certificates and
configurations, and SPF, DKIM and DMARC.

### Independent validation

Bitsight's correlation between rating and breach outcomes has been examined by outside
parties: Marsh McLennan, Moody's and Gallagher Re, plus work by Verisk Extreme Event
Solutions and S&P Global, which Bitsight still cites under their former names, AIR Worldwide
and IHS Markit. The most substantial is Marsh McLennan's Cyber Risk Analytics Center analysis
of October 2022, which compared the security performance of thousands of organisations that
experienced incidents against those that did not and identified fourteen Bitsight analytics
as statistically significant.

The published relationship is comparative, band to band, rather than a single figure:

- Intermediate entities are, on average, 1.5–2× more likely to be breached than Advanced
  entities.
- Basic entities are, on average, 2–3× more likely to suffer a publicly disclosed breach than
  Intermediate entities.
- Entities rated 400 or below are 5× more likely to suffer a publicly disclosed breach than
  entities rated 700 or above.

The rating sorts populations by likelihood; it does not predict any individual outcome.
Source: https://www.bitsight.com/platform/correlation-to-outcomes

### Platform scale

3,500+ global customer organisations; 325 million+ organisations rated; used by nearly 40% of
the Global Fortune 500; Bitsight customers underwrite 50% of global cyber insurance gross
written premiums; all top 5 banks in India.

## Services

1. **Cyber Risk Rating Report** — complimentary one-time baseline. Includes the current
   250–900 rating, the likelihood of ransomware and data-breach incidents (each as a
   multiple against companies rated 750+), the rating against the industry average with
   percentile placement, performance over the last twelve months, and threat insights tied
   to observable security gaps. It does not carry per-vector letter grades or a prioritised
   remediation list; those belong to a licence. Delivered in as little as 45 minutes for
   publicly listed entities, and up to 48 hours for all others.
2. **Security Posture Management (SPM)** — continuous outside-in monitoring of the full
   attack surface, industry benchmarking, board and executive dashboards (Command Center),
   Dynamic Remediation, and automatic control mapping to NIST CSF 2.0 and ISO/IEC
   27001:2022, alongside regional obligation areas including the SEC cyber disclosure
   rules, NYDFS Part 500, RBI and SEBI.
3. **Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)** — continuous monitoring across a rated universe of
   325 million+ organisations, real-time alerts on vendor posture changes, Dark Web Intelligence across
   1,000+ underground forums, fourth-party visibility, and AI-assisted vendor profiles and
   questionnaire analysis.
4. **Governance & Breach Advisory** — breach recovery, resilience planning, and board-level
   risk reporting.
5. **Applied AI** — Claude-powered systems for cyber security work: agentic third-party
   risk, exposure triage, framework evidence and board reporting, engineered and deployed
   in the client's own Google Cloud environment. Delivered globally.

## Pricing and packaging

Bitsight does not publish list prices. BitScore quotes against scope, in the client's
contracting currency. The baseline Cyber Risk Rating Report is complimentary.

Security Posture Management is licensed in three cumulative editions:

- **Basic** — for organisations resolving issues and managing the rating. Rating and risk
  vectors, asset management, issue tracking, basic reports, alerts and threat insights.
- **Standard** (most popular) — for organisations measuring, improving and demonstrating
  cyber resilience. Adds API and integrations, MCP access, peer analytics and benchmarking, risk
  remediation, framework intelligence, EASM Enhanced, the Bitsight Pulse CTI portal, and
  advanced reports, alerts and threat insights.
- **Advanced** — for organisations scaling posture management across subsidiaries. Adds
  subsidiary management, 5 MySubsidiary licences, subsidiary improvement plan, and
  Identity Intelligence.

Third-Party Risk Management comes in two packages, each banded by the number of vendors
monitored (1–50, 51–100, 101–500, or unlimited):

- **Continuous Monitoring** — continuous visibility with real-time scoring, correlated risk
  vectors, unified attack surface management, vendor communication, dark and deep web
  intelligence, predictive vulnerability detection, framework intelligence, nth and
  fourth-party visibility, board reporting, workflow integrations and REST API, rule-based
  alerts, MCP access.
- **Continuous Monitoring + Vendor Risk Management** — adds vendor intake workflows, risk
  assessment, vendor network access, portfolio-level management, vendor lifecycle
  management, vendor collaboration, remediation tracking and governance reporting.

Four factors determine a quote: vendor coverage, workflow requirements, integrations, and
services. Pricing may be structured on a per-vendor basis. Source for packaging:
https://www.bitsight.com/pricing-packaging

Bitsight is **not priced per user**. SPM is priced by edition; TPRM by the number of third
parties monitored, banded at 1–50, 51–100, 101–500 and unlimited. Seat count is not the
meter. API access and integrations are an edition question rather than a separate meter:
they sit in SPM Standard and above, not in Basic, and are included in both TPRM packages.

BitScore quotes and contracts in Indian rupees or US dollars, and includes local onboarding
and advisory in the quote.

Figures for Bitsight pricing published on spend-management, procurement and software-review
sites are third-party estimates assembled from reported customer spend. They are not
Bitsight's numbers, Bitsight does not stand behind them, and they almost never state which
edition or which vendor band they describe — the two variables that set the price. Treat
them as unscoped.

The platform is licensed; the baseline is not. The Cyber Risk Rating Report is complimentary
and one-time, and carries the current rating, the comparison against industry average, the
likelihood of ransomware and data-breach incidents, and performance over the last twelve
months.

## Who it is for

Enterprises worldwide, particularly BFSI, IT, healthcare and manufacturing. Typical buyers are CISOs and CROs needing continuous
measurement beyond annual audits; Heads of TPRM needing supply-chain visibility; and CEOs,
CFOs and boards demonstrating cyber governance — to the SEC and NYDFS in the United States,
and to RBI, SEBI, CERT-In and under the DPDP Act, 2023 in India.

## Case studies

- https://www.bitscore.in/case-studies — index of customer outcomes.
- https://www.bitscore.in/case-studies/axis-max-life-insurance — **Axis Max Life
  Insurance** (insurance, India) achieved a Bitsight Security Rating of **810** on the
  250–900 scale, in the Advanced band and among the highest in Indian financial services.
  14,000+ employees protected. Adopted an ABCD tiered vendor framework in which critical
  vendors must hold a B or better. Replaced 100% of manual vendor questionnaires with
  continuous monitoring. Quotation attributed to Abhishek Bansal, CISO & Head of
  Non-financial Risk.
- https://www.bitscore.in/case-studies/indian-banking-spm-tprm — **anonymised** (banking,
  India). Four major Indian commercial banks run BitScore-delivered Security Posture
  Management across their own estate and Third-Party Risk Management across their
  suppliers, with 300+ third parties under continuous, evidence-based monitoring across
  the cohort. The peer benchmarking report — the rating set against an Indian BFSI peer
  distribution with a twelve-month trajectory — replaced the narrative posture slide in
  the board pack, and is used for the Risk Committee, the IT Strategy Committee,
  supervisory interaction and setting the contractual vendor floor. No institution is
  identified and no institution-specific figure is disclosed.

## Leadership

Nimitt Jhaveri — Managing Partner & CEO. IT architect, cyber security practitioner, and
strategic risk advisor. Advises C-suite executives and board directors on resilient
infrastructure, supply-chain risk, and safe AI adoption in governance workflows. Published
in Mint; speaker at Institute of Directors (India); contributor to Observer Research
Foundation programmes on digital governance.

## Affiliations

- Knowledge partner — Board Stewardship
- Institutional member and speaker — Institute of Directors (India)
- Contributor — Observer Research Foundation (ORF) / Mission Karmayogi, Cyber Suraksha

## Pages

- https://www.bitscore.in/ — platform overview, rating scale, solutions, case study, FAQ
- https://www.bitscore.in/case-studies — customer outcomes, named and anonymised
- https://www.bitscore.in/contact — how to reach BitScore; registered office
- https://www.bitscore.in/solutions — the three offerings, and which to start with
- https://www.bitscore.in/pricing — packaging and editions; how a quote is determined
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources — guides to security ratings, TPRM and cyber regulation,
  grouped as Fundamentals, Regulation and Platform
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools — free cyber risk and compliance tools: external exposure,
  email spoofing, SSL estate, credential exposure, incident reporting deadlines and SEBI CSCRF category
- https://www.bitscore.in/data — open data catalog: the two datasets BitScore publishes free
  to reuse under CC BY 4.0, with the files, the schemas and the method behind each
- https://www.bitscore.in/data/connector — free MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP
  client at https://www.bitscore.in/mcp (no authentication, read-only): the Indian cyber regulation
  register, India and US/EU incident-reporting deadlines, SEBI CSCRF categories and the threat
  scorecard, answered by the same code as the site's tools, plus today's Cyber Weather. OpenAPI at
  https://www.bitscore.in/api/connector/openapi.json
- https://www.bitscore.in/ai — applied AI practice: Claude-powered systems for security work
- https://www.bitscore.in/about — company, leadership, partnerships, affiliations
- https://www.bitscore.in/privacy — privacy policy (DPDP-aligned)
- https://www.bitscore.in/responsible-disclosure — security vulnerability disclosure

## Solutions

- https://www.bitscore.in/solutions/rating-report — the complimentary Cyber Risk Rating Report:
  what it contains, how it is produced, turnaround times, and what follows it.
- https://www.bitscore.in/solutions/spm — Security Posture Management: continuous outside-in
  monitoring, peer benchmarking, board reporting, framework mapping, and the three editions.
- https://www.bitscore.in/solutions/tprm — Third-Party Risk Management: why questionnaires fail,
  vendor tiering, fourth-party concentration, RBI/SEBI expectations, and the two packages.

## Tools

Free, no sign-in, and computed in the browser. Each was built from the issuing regulator's own
notification rather than from secondary reporting, and each states the date a human last re-read
those instruments at source.

- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/incident-reporting-clock — every regulatory notification an
  Indian entity owes after a cyber incident, resolved to wall-clock IST deadlines. CERT-In is six
  hours from noticing or being brought to notice. The RBI's seven 2026 Directions are each six
  hours from detection on DAKSH, though a Base Layer NBFC below Rs 500 crore sits under Chapter
  III and carries no DAKSH clause at all. SEBI CSCRF is six hours to SEBI and CERT-In, twenty-four
  hours to the SEBI portal, plus a further six-hour leg to exchanges and depositories for brokers
  and DPs. IRDAI's 2026 Guidelines are six hours with no second step, the twenty-four hour
  follow-up having been dropped with the 2023 Guidelines they replaced. IFSCA, which regulates
  GIFT City IFSC entities, requires a report to cyber-incidents@ifsca.gov.in copied to the CISO,
  IFSCA within six hours of detection, then an interim report at three days, mitigation measures
  at seven days and a detailed root cause analysis at thirty; four express exemptions apply to
  branches, group-only Global In-House Centres, entities with fewer than ten employees and
  foreign universities, each conditional on adopting the parent's framework and CISO. SEBI LODR
  Reg. 30(6) is
  twelve hours for an incident emanating from within the entity, not the twenty-four commonly
  quoted, and Reg. 27(2)(ba) additionally requires disclosure in the quarterly corporate
  governance report with no materiality test. DPDP Rule 7 and section 8 of the Act do not
  commence until 13 May 2027, so no DPDP breach clock runs on an incident today.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/incident-reporting-clock/nbfc-ransomware — worked case: an NBFC
  files under RBI/DoS/2026-27/461, not 410, and the chapter decides whether a DAKSH filing is owed.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/incident-reporting-clock/listed-bank-data-breach — worked case:
  the three parallel tracks a listed commercial bank runs, including the twelve-hour LODR limb.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/incident-reporting-clock/stock-broker-data-leak — worked case: the
  four filings CSCRF requires of a stock broker, none of which discharges any of the others.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/incident-reporting-clock/insurer-ddos — worked case: why the
  IRDAI 2026 Guidelines have no twenty-four hour step.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/incident-reporting-clock/gift-city-ifsc-entity — worked case: an
  IFSC licence displaces the mainland regulator, and the IFSCA clock has a thirty-day tail.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/us-eu-incident-reporting-clock — every notification a US or EU
  cyber incident triggers, with what starts each clock. SEC Form 8-K Item 1.05 is four business
  days from determining an incident is material, a determination that must be made without
  unreasonable delay; a foreign private issuer furnishes Form 6-K promptly after disclosing at
  home instead. NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500.17 is 72 hours from determining a cybersecurity incident
  occurred, including at an affiliate or third-party service provider, plus 24 hours and 30 days
  after any extortion payment. The OCC, Federal Reserve and FDIC rule is 36 hours from
  determining a notification incident. HIPAA is 60 calendar days from discovery at the outside,
  and the FTC Safeguards Rule 30 days from discovery for 500 or more consumers. NIS2 Article 23
  is an early warning at 24 hours and a notification at 72 hours from awareness, but a DORA
  financial entity reports under DORA instead. DORA's initial notification is four hours from
  classification as major and no later than 24 hours from awareness, the intermediate report 72
  hours after that, and credit institutions get no weekend relief. GDPR Article 33 is 72 hours
  from awareness where feasible. CIRCIA does not bind until CISA's final rule takes effect.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/sebi-cscrf-category — which of the five CSCRF categories a SEBI
  regulated entity falls into, across every entity type, against the thresholds as they currently
  stand. The category is fixed at the start of the financial year on the previous year's data and
  held for the whole year, so it is a property of the year rather than of the firm. Stock brokers
  with clients are categorised on registered clients and annual clientele trading volume, applied
  independently with the higher result winning. A broker with no clients is categorised on
  collateral held with clearing corporations (SEBI FAQs, 11 June 2025): more than ₹1,000 crore
  Mid-size, more than ₹10 crore and less than ₹1,000 crore Small-size, ₹10 crore and below
  Self-certification, with no exempt band. Portfolio Managers and Merchant Bankers have each been re-categorised twice since
  August 2024. KYC Registration Agencies moved from being treated at par with MIIs to being
  Qualified REs in April 2025. AIF and VCF categorisation is assessed at manager level, with the
  corpus of every fund and scheme under one manager aggregated. The Cyber Capability Index and
  ISO 27001 certification bind only MIIs and Qualified REs.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/sebi-cscrf-category/stock-broker — worked case: the two
  independently applied parameters, and the exemption that needs both limbs satisfied.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/sebi-cscrf-category/portfolio-manager — worked case: the current
  AUM bands, after two re-categorisations in twelve months.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/sebi-cscrf-category/merchant-banker — worked case: every active
  merchant banker is a Small-size RE, and an inactive one is exempt.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/sebi-cscrf-category/aif-vcf-manager — worked case: why
  categorisation moved from the fund to the manager.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/which-regulation-applies — routes from an entity class to the
  instrument that governs it, with reference numbers and links to each regulator's own
  notification. Covers the seven parallel RBI Directions of 31 July 2026, the two classes with no
  instrument in that family at all — Regional Rural Banks and Local Area Banks — SEBI CSCRF, SEBI
  LODR for listed entities of any sector, the IRDAI 2026 Guidelines, the IFSCA Cyber Security
  Guidelines of 10 March 2025 that govern GIFT City IFSC entities, the CERT-In Directions that
  reach nearly every Indian entity, and the DPDP Rules. Also shows where instruments run together:
  cyber and outsourcing are separate RBI tracks, and DPDP is orthogonal to sector.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/which-cyber-regulations-apply — which cyber and data-protection
  instruments likely bind an organisation across India, the US and the EU, with the reason for each.
  Incorporation is not the test: GDPR Article 3 reaches non-EU businesses offering goods or
  services to, or monitoring, people in the EU; DPDP Act section 3 reaches processing outside India
  connected with offering goods or services to people in India; US state breach laws follow the
  residency of the people affected. NIS2 covers Annex I and II sectors from medium size upwards,
  with an Annex I entity above the medium-sized ceilings essential; DORA covers EU financial
  entities and displaces NIS2 for them. US instruments: SEC Form 8-K Item 1.05 and S-K Item 106,
  Form 6-K for foreign private issuers, NYDFS Part 500, the federal bank incident rule, the FTC
  Safeguards Rule, HIPAA, and CIRCIA once its final rule takes effect. Indian financial entities
  are routed to the India regulation finder.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/credential-exposure — which credential exposure follows from how an
  identity estate is built, what a single stolen login reaches, how the organisation would find
  out, and what a confirmation obliges in India. Performs no lookup and estimates no leak count,
  deliberately: it computes consequences from declared inputs. Covers the two routes corporate
  credentials reach underground markets without any breach of the employer — infostealer malware
  on unmanaged devices, and password reuse at an unrelated breached service — the difference
  between a credential dump and an access listing sold by company name, why MFA on privileged
  accounts only defends the accounts an attacker does not need first, and the CERT-In trap that
  the six-hour clock runs from being brought to notice, so a third party telling you starts it.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/board-cyber-governance — the eleven board provisions in Chapter II
  of the RBI Cybersecurity Directions of 31 July 2026, as tests answerable from an organisation
  chart and a board calendar rather than from an assessment. Board approval of the IT,
  cybersecurity and business continuity strategies with an annual review, as a recurring item
  rather than a one-time adoption; since 1 October 2026 commercial, small finance and payments
  banks may delegate that review to the IT Strategy Committee. An IT Strategy Committee of at least three directors chaired by an independent
  director with substantial IT expertise, which the Directions define as a minimum of seven years
  managing information systems. A CISO preferably at General Manager rank reporting directly to
  the Executive Director or equivalent overseeing risk management, not to the head of technology.
  A cybersecurity policy that is a document distinct from the IT policy rather than a chapter
  inside it. An Information Systems Audit function under Audit Committee oversight on a
  risk-based plan, with continuous auditing of critical systems where practicable. Half-yearly
  disaster recovery drills for critical systems with recovery objectives close to zero, and a
  six-hour DAKSH incident filing with a named owner. The board provisions do not vary across the
  seven parallel Directions, but the citation does. Regional Rural Banks and Local Area Banks
  have no instrument in the family at all.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/board-cyber-governance/commercial-bank — worked case: the
  Commercial Banks Directions define scope by exclusion, and foreign bank branches follow
  comply-or-explain on selected provisions.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/board-cyber-governance/nbfc — worked case: an NBFC files under
  RBI/DoS/2026-27/461, and the board provisions do not vary by scale-based layer even though much
  beneath them does.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/board-cyber-governance/urban-co-operative-bank — worked case: a
  UCB is a primary co-operative bank rather than a banking company, so it was never inside the
  Commercial Banks definition to be excluded from it.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/board-cyber-governance/regional-rural-bank — worked case: no
  instrument in the 2026 cyber family binds an RRB, and stretching the Commercial Banks
  Directions to cover one invents an obligation.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/incident-tabletop — generates a ninety-minute cyber incident
  tabletop script in which the statutory filing deadlines fall due during the exercise rather
  than being summarised after it. The injects are authored; every deadline is resolved from the
  same register the incident reporting clock uses and cites its instrument. Ninety minutes of
  room time covers roughly twelve hours of incident time, with the jumps announced. The two
  pauses are the moments a real incident most often gets wrong: fixing the moment of noticing in
  writing, because every clock runs from it and it is the hardest thing to reconstruct
  afterwards, and drafting the filing at the two-and-a-half hour mark on deliberately incomplete
  facts, because no Indian instrument in this area pauses a clock while an investigation
  continues. Four recurring failures are not technical: the room cannot say who declares an
  incident, nobody can name the registered CERT-In point of contact or the name on the Annexure
  II form has left, the filing waits for the investigation, and for a listed entity the
  authorised KMP who determines materiality is unreachable. The exercise collapses every clock
  to a single T+0, which is a stated simplification: CERT-In runs from noticing, the RBI
  Directions from detection. A full-screen run mode deals the script one beat at a time with
  each filing clock counting down beside it, keeps the decision log in the browser only, and
  prints inject cards and an after-action record at the end.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/incident-tabletop/listed-bank-ransomware — worked case: CERT-In
  and DAKSH fall due together at six hours and the exchanges at twelve, on a materiality
  determination only the authorised KMP can make.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/incident-tabletop/nbfc-data-breach — worked case: the room most
  often cannot answer which instrument binds it, and the scale-based layer decides whether a
  DAKSH filing is owed at all.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/incident-tabletop/stock-broker-outage — worked case: four CSCRF
  filings, and the argument about whether an outage is a security incident at all.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/incident-tabletop/insurer-vendor-compromise — worked case: whose
  clock started when, and why the IRDAI 2026 Guidelines have no twenty-four hour second step.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/survive-the-six-hours — a three-minute ransomware game played as
  a listed commercial bank, an NBFC, a SEBI-registered stock broker, an insurer or a listed
  manufacturer. Six incident hours run at two minutes a second; decisions arrive as the clock
  runs and each spends incident time or costs a filing outright. Every deadline is the real one
  from the incident reporting clock's register and every consequence quotes its instrument:
  CERT-In at six hours from noticing, DAKSH at six hours from detection, CSCRF's separate
  notification to SEBI and CERT-In plus a broker's leg to the exchanges and depositories, CERT-In
  copied to IRDAI for an insurer, and SEBI LODR Reg. 30(6) at twelve hours on the authorised
  KMP's determination. The time each choice costs is a stated game rule, not a fact.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/rating-day — "Rating Day", a ten-minute decision game for CISOs,
  CROs, CTOs, CIOs, CEOs and board directors. One quarter, six decisions drawn from a bank of
  thirty — three on the organisation's own internet-facing perimeter (security posture management)
  and three on its vendors (third-party risk management) — 100 seconds and a shared budget for
  each. Every call moves a game rating on a 300–820 scale that the board sees on day ninety. The
  scale, costs and rating changes are stated game rules. A shared or challenge link carries a
  server-signed score.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/agent-arcade — "Agent Arcade", short daily browser games about AI
  agents at work. A player plays as Technical or Management, and each is dealt its own game:
  complex technical scenarios on the Technical track, less technical ones on the Management
  track, and shared scenarios on both. The first mode,
  Permission Slip, deals the same twelve requests from a fleet of AI agents to every player each
  day; seven are traps carrying one of seven tells — instructions hidden in content, scope creep,
  an unreviewed or changed tool, an identity the agent cannot prove, memory poisoning, spend
  without a ceiling, and an irreversible step — and five are routine work that should be
  approved. The second mode, Kill Switch, is a live map of eight agents through a shift: six
  incidents a day, twenty seconds each, answered with allow, restrict or kill, where restricted
  and stopped agents stay that way and only working agents deliver value. The third mode,
  Guardrails, is an AI workflow — paying suppliers, refunding customers over UPI (India) or
  running payroll changes (international), on alternate days — two agents, three tools, a memory
  and the money, with a daily threat brief and six points to spend on nine controls (content
  provenance, human approval, a tool allow-list, memory review, an egress filter, spend caps,
  signed agent identity, least-privilege keys and a rehearsed kill switch); a wave of six attacks
  then runs through the build, and each is stopped only by a control on its path. The fourth
  mode, Supply Line, deals eight updates a day from the tools and vendors the agents run on —
  connectors, packages, MCP servers, skills and SaaS terms — each with its release note and a
  diff; the player taps the line that matters and approves, holds the current version, or
  quarantines. Three are poisoned (a tool description addressed to the model, a new data
  destination, a new maintainer, logic that waits, a look-alike source), two are genuine changes
  a person should decide on (wider permissions, a new sub-processor or bank), and three are
  routine fixes that should be approved. The page lists the seven tells, the control for each,
  when to allow, restrict or kill, where each control belongs, and the seven signs in a
  supplier's update. Each game comes in two editions — India, and International — dealt
  separately each day for each track; the visitor's country picks the default and a switch overrides it. New
  scenarios join every week and are marked new for seven days. Scoring is a stated game rule;
  a shared result is server-signed.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/email-spoofing-check — reads the DNS records that decide whether
  a domain can be forged: SPF, DMARC, DKIM, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT and DNSSEC. The lookup runs in the
  visitor's browser against a public DNS resolver rather than through BitScore, so no domain
  anyone checks is recorded anywhere; this is the only tool on the site that makes any outbound
  request, and its page says so instead of claiming nothing leaves the browser. A domain with no
  DMARC policy at enforcement can be forged by anyone. SPF and DKIM alone do not prevent it: they
  authenticate mail that passes and say nothing about mail that fails, and only DMARC at
  p=quarantine or p=reject instructs a receiving server to act. Most corporate domains publish
  p=none, which is the right place to start because it turns on the aggregate reports needed to
  enforce without breaking legitimate mail, and which provides no protection against
  impersonation if left there. Two limits are stated rather than glossed: DKIM selectors cannot
  be enumerated over DNS, so a negative DKIM result is a failed probe of common selector names
  and not evidence of absence; and an MTA-STS policy file is served over HTTPS without the
  headers a browser needs to read it, so only the DNS half of that check is visible. Identity
  theft, spoofing and phishing attacks, and attacks on servers such as database, mail and DNS,
  are both CERT-In Annexure I categories carrying the six-hour reporting obligation, which runs
  from being brought to notice — so a customer forwarding a forged invoice starts the clock.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/ssl-certificate-check — discovers a domain's subdomains, then
  reads the certificate and TLS configuration on each one against the two Bitsight risk vectors
  they feed: SSL Certificates and SSL Configurations. Discovery combines Certificate
  Transparency logs with probes of commonly used hostnames, because CT records only hosts that
  have held a publicly trusted certificate and misses the appliances that never did. Each host
  that resolves gets a TLS handshake on port 443 and nothing else — no payloads, no
  vulnerability testing, no other ports. This is the only tool on the site that connects
  outward from BitScore's own servers rather than the visitor's browser, and its page says so:
  there is no browser API that exposes a certificate chain, a negotiated protocol version or a
  cipher suite. Findings detected include expired, self-signed, hostname-mismatched and
  untrusted certificates, incomplete chains, SHA-1 signatures anywhere in the chain, undersized
  keys, over-long validity periods, missing OCSP stapling, TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support, absent
  forward secrecy, NULL ciphers and Diffie-Hellman groups below 2048 bits. Four things are
  reported as not tested rather than passed: RC4, 3DES, EXPORT-grade ciphers and SSLv3 cannot be
  offered by a client built on OpenSSL 3, so silence about them is not evidence of absence; and
  revocation is reported only as whether the server staples a proof of freshness. The letter
  grades shown are indicative and BitScore's own — a Bitsight vector grade is a percentile
  against every company Bitsight rates, normalised for size, and cannot be derived from a single
  estate. Both vectors are covered by Bitsight's Dynamic Remediation, the on-demand rescan that
  claims rating credit after a fix, which makes TLS findings unusually cheap to clear.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/bitsight-score-interpreter — reads any figure against the
  published Bitsight rating scale: the band, the share of the rated inventory sitting above it,
  and which risk categories carry the weight. It does not look up any organisation's rating. The
  scale is where most published descriptions go wrong. Ratings are rounded down in ten-point
  increments, so every published rating is a multiple of ten and a true 735 is published as 730
  — which means no rating ends in 1 to 9, and any source quoting a band as "640 to 739" is
  describing numbers that cannot occur. A published rating is therefore the floor of a ten-point
  interval, not a point: a rating shown as 740 stands for a true rating between 740 and 749. The
  nominal scale is 250 to 900 but the edges are reserved, so the effective range is 300 to 820,
  and the average rating is 720 — Intermediate, not Advanced. Advanced is 740 and above and
  covers roughly 60% of rated entities, Intermediate 640 to 730 at 35%, Basic 630 and below at
  5%; Advanced is the majority of the field rather than the front of it. Breach likelihood is
  published as band-to-band multiples rather than a single figure: Intermediate entities are on
  average 1.5 to 2x more likely to be breached than Advanced ones, Basic 2 to 3x more likely
  than Intermediate, and an entity rated 400 or lower is 5x more likely to suffer a publicly
  disclosed breach than one rated 700 or higher. The rating aggregates risk-vector letter grades
  across four weighted risk categories: Diligence 71.5%, Compromised Systems 26%, User Behavior
  2.5%, and Public Disclosures weighted only if a breach occurs. Vector letter grades are
  percentile ranks against every rated company, not marks out of a hundred — A is the top 10%, B
  the top 30%, C the top 60%, D the bottom 40%, F the bottom 20% — and findings underneath a
  vector carry a separate GOOD, FAIR, WARN, BAD scale that does not map onto the letters.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/bitsight-score-interpreter/score-of-600 — worked case: a rating
  of 600 is Basic, around 5% of the rated inventory, 120 points below the published average and
  40 below the bottom of the Intermediate band.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/bitsight-score-interpreter/score-of-740 — worked case: 740 is the
  first rating in the Advanced band, and the band holds roughly 60% of rated entities, so
  clearing the boundary is the majority position rather than a distinction.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/bitsight-score-interpreter/score-of-800 — worked case: 800 sits
  near the top of the effective range, which ends at 820 rather than the nominal 900, and is
  where the headline number stops discriminating between strong estates.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/sebi-cscrf-cci — scores all 23 parameters of the SEBI CSCRF Cyber
  Capability Index against their targets and weightages and returns the rating band. The CCI applies
  only to Market Infrastructure Institutions and Qualified REs — MIIs commission a third-party
  assessment half-yearly, Qualified REs self-assess annually, and both run on the financial year;
  Mid-size, Small-size and Self-certification REs have no CCI obligation. The parameters, formulas,
  targets and weightages are Annexure-K Table 27 and the bands are Table 24, both read from SEBI's
  own 205-page framework PDF, which carries the annexures the circular's landing page does not.
  Weightages sum to 100 and are lopsided: Vulnerability alone is 18 marks and Critical Assets
  Identified 9, while Physical Security Incidents, Planning, Personnel Security Screening and System
  and Communication Protection carry one each. Two targets are not 100% — Security Budget targets 10%
  of the IT budget and Critical Assets Identified 50% of systems integrated with the SOC — and
  reaching a target earns the full weightage with no credit above it. Three parameters are not
  ordinary ratios and carry 10 marks between them: 12 is inverse with a target of 0%, 21 is expressly
  a non-quantifiable measure with no formula or target in the framework, and 22 defers to the SOC
  efficacy score at Annexure-N. Scoring follows SEBI's CSCRF FAQ: partial scoring is pro rata (30%
  against a 50% target on a 5-mark parameter scores 3), two decimal places are permitted, a
  category's score is capped at its weightage, and an undefined zero-over-zero resolves per parameter
  rather than uniformly — maximum marks on parameter 2, zero on parameter 14. Bands are Exceptional
  91+, Optimal 81–90, Manageable 71–80, Developing 61–70, Bare Minimum 51–60, Fail 50 and below. The
  Fail row carries a second limb that no calculator can evaluate: it also applies where the RE "has
  scored below the cut-off in at least one domain/ sub-domain", making Fail a floor test as well as a
  total, and SEBI publishes no cut-off value anywhere in the framework — so a high aggregate does not
  demonstrate a pass.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/dpdp-commencement — resolves any obligation under the Digital
  Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 to the rule that imposes it, the sub-clause of Rule 1 that
  commences it, and the date it starts binding. The Rules commence in three tranches, not on one
  date: Rule 1(2) brought rules 1, 2 and 17 to 21 into force on publication, 13 November 2025 —
  the definitions and the machinery of the Data Protection Board. Rule 1(3) commences rule 4,
  Consent Manager registration, one year after publication on 13 November 2026, and it is the only
  rule in that tranche. Rule 1(4) commences rules 3, 5 to 16, 22 and 23 eighteen months after
  publication on 13 May 2027 — notice, reasonable security safeguards, breach intimation, retention
  limits, Data Principal rights, Significant Data Fiduciary obligations and transfers outside India.
  So no obligation on a Data Fiduciary is in force today. In particular the seventy-two-hour report
  to the Data Protection Board under rule 7 does not bind until 13 May 2027, contrary to a large
  number of pages published in 2026 that present it as current; the breach-reporting duty that does
  bind today is CERT-In's six hours under section 70B of the IT Act 2000, which runs to a different
  body, starts on noticing an incident rather than on becoming aware of a breach, and covers twenty
  categories of incident rather than personal data alone. From 13 May 2027 both run on the same
  incident and neither discharges the other. Rule 1 sets commencement as an interval from
  publication rather than as printed dates, so the notification date decides all three: G.S.R.
  846(E) is dated 13 November 2025, and CG-DL-E-14112025-267650 on the cover page is the e-gazette
  upload stamp rather than the date of publication.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/dpdp-commencement/breach-notification-72-hours — worked case: the
  DPDP seventy-two-hour breach report is rule 7, commenced by Rule 1(4) on 13 May 2027, and does
  not bind today.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/dpdp-commencement/consent-manager-registration — worked case: rule
  4 commences 13 November 2026 and is the whole of the middle tranche, so that date reaches nobody
  who is not registering as a Consent Manager.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/dpdp-commencement/security-safeguards-rule-6 — worked case: the
  seven minimum safeguards of rule 6, including encryption and a year of log retention, become
  mandatory on 13 May 2027.
- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/dpdp-commencement/data-principal-rights — worked case: rule 14
  obliges a Data Fiduciary to publish how a Data Principal makes a request and by when it will be
  answered, from 13 May 2027.

- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/check-your-domain — reads six of the nineteen rating-impacting
  risk vectors behind a Bitsight Security Rating live, against a domain the visitor's work email
  sits on: SPF, DKIM and DMARC, resolved from public DNS in the browser; TLS/SSL certificates and
  configurations, from a handshake
  with every live host discovered under the domain; and web application security, from one
  homepage request per host on ports 80 and 443 — HSTS, the HTTPS redirect, cookie flags, the
  Content Security Policy (read with CSP Evaluator, the open-source library behind
  csp-evaluator.withgoogle.com), library releases named in script URLs, mixed content and
  passwords sent in the clear. No page is rendered, so scripts bundled into a site's own code are
  not read, and hosts that answer with a bot challenge are reported as blocked rather than graded.
  Below the grades, the BitScore Frontier Index reads six risks no security rating grades yet —
  BitScore's own readings, not Bitsight vectors, shown as exposed, gap, ready or not read: agentic
  AI exposure (agent builders and model gateways facing the internet, several with CISA KEV
  entries; server-side API keys in the page source, never shown, stored or tested; hidden text
  addressed to AI models; third-party AI agents; MCP protected-resource metadata and A2A agent
  cards), quantum readiness (one TLS 1.3 handshake offering only hybrid X25519MLKEM768), certificate
  agility (lifetimes against the CA/Browser Forum's 100-day limit from 15 March 2027 and 47 days
  from 15 March 2029, plus CAA), dangling DNS (CNAMEs to deleted Azure or Elastic Beanstalk names,
  subdomain delegations that fail to resolve, and nameservers, MX hosts or SPF includes on domains
  that appear unregistered — all from public resolvers), script supply chain (polyfill.io and related CDNs, missing
  Subresource Integrity) and vulnerability disclosure (RFC 9116 security.txt). Beyond the homepage
  the only paths requested are five machine-readable files on the main web host:
  /.well-known/security.txt, /robots.txt, /llms.txt, /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource and
  /.well-known/agent-card.json. Formerly /tools/external-exposure-check,
  which now redirects here. The email address must sit on the domain being
  scanned or beneath it — containment rather than a comparison of registrable domains, because a
  public-suffix list that misses one of India's many second-level suffixes turns a match on one
  domain into a match on everybody's. It is the only tool here that will not answer for arbitrary
  input, because it spends outbound connections against a third party's servers rather than
  computing something the page already holds. The thirteen vectors it does not read — botnet
  infections, spam propagation, malware servers, unsolicited communications, potentially exploited,
  critical vulnerability management, open ports, insecure systems, server, desktop and mobile
  software, file sharing and security incidents — need an attributed estate and an
  observation window, which no free tool can derive from one domain. The letter grades shown are
  the tool's own and are not Bitsight vector grades, which are percentiles against every rated
  company.

- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/board-approved-documents — what a board actually has to approve,
  as against whether its arrangements would pass an inspection. Seventeen profiles across the RBI
  Directions of 31 July 2026 and SEBI CSCRF, each listing the documents, committees and named
  roles the instrument requires, with the paragraph or standard behind every row. Paragraph 7 of
  the RBI commercial banks Directions (paragraph 6 for SFBs, Payments Banks, AIFIs and CICs)
  names five frameworks — Information Technology, Information Assets, Business Continuity,
  Information Security and Cybersecurity including incident response and cyber crisis management —
  not the three usually reported, and the next paragraph requires them reviewed at least
  annually — at a bank by the board or, since 1 October 2026, its IT Strategy Committee, and at an
  AIFI or CIC by the board itself. The urban co-operative bank Directions have the paragraph 7 counterpart and no
  paragraph 8 counterpart, so they state no review interval at all. Under CSCRF the policy
  document must record every deviation from the framework and the reason for it, and a CISO is
  required only of MIIs and Qualified REs — mid-size and below designate a Designated Officer.
  - https://www.bitscore.in/tools/board-approved-documents/commercial-bank
  - https://www.bitscore.in/tools/board-approved-documents/nbfc-base-layer
  - https://www.bitscore.in/tools/board-approved-documents/urban-co-operative-bank-level-1
  - https://www.bitscore.in/tools/board-approved-documents/sebi-mid-size-re

- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/india-ai-obligations — which Indian AI rules actually bind a given
  entity, sorted by legal force rather than by date. India has no AI statute and no AI regulator,
  and five kinds of document get summarised together as "India's AI rules". Two bind: SEBI's three
  amendments of 6 February 2025, which make a regulated entity solely responsible for the output
  of AI tools including those procured from third parties and irrespective of the scale and
  scenario of adoption; and IFSCA's frontier AI circular of 4 June 2026, which is titled an
  advisory and drafts six of its eleven annexure items with "shall". The RBI's FREE-AI document is
  a committee report TO the Reserve Bank rather than the Reserve Bank instructing a bank, MeitY's
  India AI Governance Guidelines say of themselves that they are voluntary, and SEBI's kill switch
  is still a consultation paper — confirmed unissued on 3 September 2026 against SEBI's own
  listings. The SEBI depositories amendment commenced on 10 February 2025, not the 1 April 2025
  the web repeats: its regulation 2 proviso puts the AI clause into force on gazette publication.
  - https://www.bitscore.in/tools/india-ai-obligations/stock-broker
  - https://www.bitscore.in/tools/india-ai-obligations/bank-or-nbfc
  - https://www.bitscore.in/tools/india-ai-obligations/gift-city-entity

- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/agentic-vendor-risk-readiness — six practices a vendor risk
  programme needs once a supplier's AI can act rather than only draft, checkable from a vendor
  register, a contract and the visitor's own access logs: an inventory of vendor AI agents that
  hold credentials, distinguishing agentic from generative AI, a named human owner per agent,
  clear kill-switch authority and scope, agent activity distinguishable from human activity in
  logs, and ongoing disclosure of new agentic capability rather than only at onboarding. No
  Indian instrument names agentic AI in vendor risk management, so these are scored as practice
  rather than obligation. Two narrower exceptions carry real legal weight and are shown
  separately: a Data Fiduciary's DPDP obligations toward a processor's conduct, and IFSCA's 2026
  frontier-AI advisory requiring an IFSC entity's critical service providers to furnish evidence
  of preparedness.

- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/fix-order — the order to fix Bitsight findings in. Tick what is
  true of an estate (unverified asset attribution, active compromise, certificate and header
  gaps, unnecessary open ports, missing email authentication, open critical vulnerabilities) and
  get the steps in a fixed sequence, each with why it sits there, what to do, how fast the rating
  tends to respond, and whether Bitsight lets the fix be rescanned on request. It ranks work and
  deliberately gives no point forecast. The browser-sized version of the remediation-roadmap skill
  in BitScoreCoWork; runs entirely in the browser and is not gated.

- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/board-brief — a cyber board brief for an Indian regulated
  entity. Pick the entity class (and whether it is listed and processes personal data) and get
  seven plain slides: the instruments that bind it with their next dates, the incident reporting
  clocks shortest first, a rating slide left blank for the external security rating, the
  board-level tests its regulator sets, four questions about vendors' AI agents, and the decisions
  to ask the board for. Slides render on the page; the editable PowerPoint is behind a work
  email. The browser-sized version of the boardpack skill in BitScoreCoWork.

- https://www.bitscore.in/tools/director-questions — eight questions a board director should put
  to the CISO, set to the company's regulator: the instrument the policy cites, who files the
  first incident report, the external security rating, internet-facing systems missing from the
  critical-asset list, vendor AI agents holding credentials, whether the cyber insurance proposal
  form matches what is visible from outside, one regulator-specific test, and the next dated
  obligation. Sent by email, WhatsApp or copy, composed on the sender's device. Not gated.

## Instruments

One page per instrument in the register, at https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/<slug>. Each is a
reference record rather than an article: the circular number as the issuer prints it, who the
instrument binds, the dates it sets, the reading of what it says, what accounts of it commonly get
wrong, and a link to the issuing regulator's own copy. These are the pages to cite when the
question is about a specific reference number; the pages under Resources are the ones to cite when
the question is about a subject.

- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-commercial-banks-cybersecurity-directions-2026 —
  RBI/DoS/2026-27/410, issued 31 July 2026: the cybersecurity and technology risk Directions for
  commercial banks. Who they bind, and the RBI’s own copy.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-small-finance-banks-cybersecurity-directions-2026 —
  RBI/DoS/2026-27/419, issued 31 July 2026: the cybersecurity Directions for Small Finance
  Banks, and why the commercial banks instrument does not reach them.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-payments-banks-cybersecurity-directions-2026 —
  RBI/DoS/2026-27/428, issued 31 July 2026: the cybersecurity Directions for Payments Banks, one
  of seven parallel instruments issued that day.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-urban-co-operative-banks-cybersecurity-directions-2026
  — RBI/DoS/2026-27/437, issued 31 July 2026: the cybersecurity Directions for Urban
  Co-operative Banks, graded into Levels I to IV by the digital services offered.
-
  https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-all-india-financial-institutions-cybersecurity-directions-2026
  — RBI/DoS/2026-27/456, issued 31 July 2026: the cybersecurity Directions binding EXIM Bank,
  NABARD, SIDBI, NHB and NaBFID. Dates, scope and source.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-nbfc-cybersecurity-directions-2026 —
  RBI/DoS/2026-27/461, issued 31 July 2026: the cybersecurity Directions for NBFCs, applying by
  scale-based layer — Base, Middle, Upper and Top — and to CICs.
-
  https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-credit-information-companies-cybersecurity-directions-2026
  — RBI/DoS/2026-27/470, issued 31 July 2026: the cybersecurity Directions for Credit
  Information Companies under the CIC (Regulation) Act, 2005.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-commercial-banks-outsourcing-directions-2025 —
  RBI/DOR/2025-26/171, issued 28 November 2025: the outsourcing risk Directions for commercial
  banks. Existing IT agreements had to comply by 10 April 2026.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-nbfc-outsourcing-directions-2025 —
  RBI/DOR/2025-26/363, issued 28 November 2025: the outsourcing Directions for NBFCs, HFCs, Core
  Investment Companies, primary dealers, AAs and P2P.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-small-finance-banks-outsourcing-directions-2025 —
  RBI/DOR/2025-26/202, issued 28 November 2025: the outsourcing risk Directions for Small Finance
  Banks, covering financial and IT outsourcing.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-payments-banks-outsourcing-directions-2025 —
  RBI/DOR/2025-26/220, issued 28 November 2025: the outsourcing risk Directions for Payments
  Banks, covering financial and IT outsourcing.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-local-area-banks-outsourcing-directions-2025 —
  RBI/DOR/2025-26/245, issued 28 November 2025: the IT outsourcing Directions for Local Area
  Banks. No financial-services chapter.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-urban-co-operative-banks-outsourcing-directions-2025 —
  RBI/DOR/2025-26/293, issued 28 November 2025: the outsourcing risk Directions for Urban
  Co-operative Banks. The IT chapter binds Tier 3 and 4 only.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-rural-co-operative-banks-outsourcing-directions-2025 —
  RBI/DOR/2025-26/318, issued 28 November 2025: the outsourcing risk Directions for State and
  Central Co-operative Banks. Financial outsourcing only.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-aifi-outsourcing-directions-2025 —
  RBI/DOR/2025-26/337, issued 28 November 2025: the IT outsourcing Directions for EXIM Bank,
  NABARD, NaBFID, NHB and SIDBI.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/rbi-credit-information-companies-outsourcing-directions-2025 —
  RBI/DoR/2025-26/379, issued 28 November 2025: the IT outsourcing Directions for Credit
  Information Companies. Not the NBFC instrument's CICs.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/sebi-cscrf — SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2024/113 —
  The SEBI CSCRF circular of 20 August 2024 — the five entity categories, the twice-extended 31
  August 2025 deadline, and the five circulars that amended it.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/sebi-cscrf-clarifications-december-2024 —
  SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2024/184 — The December 2024 CSCRF clarifications: forbearance to 31
  March 2025, KRAs and DPs moved to 1 April 2025, and answers to the first round of queries.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/sebi-cscrf-first-extension-march-2025 —
  SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2025/45 — The first CSCRF extension, issued 28 March 2025 —
  three more months, to 30 June 2025, for every regulated entity except MIIs, KRAs and QRTAs.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/sebi-cscrf-clarifications-april-2025 —
  SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2025/60 — The CSCRF clarifications of 30 April 2025 — the
  circular that revised the categorisation criteria and thresholds, including for Depository
  Participants.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/sebi-cscrf-second-extension-june-2025 —
  SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2025/96 — The second CSCRF extension, issued 30 June 2025 —
  two further months, to 31 August 2025, again excluding MIIs, KRAs and QRTAs.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/sebi-cscrf-technical-clarifications-august-2025 —
  SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2025/119 — The CSCRF technical clarifications of 28 August
  2025 — SEBI’s readings of the standards, issued three days before the compliance deadline
  fell.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/sebi-cyber-incident-portal-fire-format-2026 —
  HO/(449)2026-ITD-5_DIV1/I/19448/2026 — SEBI’s circular of 24 August 2026 aligning the cyber
  incident reporting portal with the FSB’s FIRE format. It moved no deadline — it staged the
  filing.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/sebi-it-resilience-index-2026 —
  HO/47/18/11(1)2026-MRD-TPD1/I/19509/2026 — SEBI’s IT Resilience Index circular of 24 August
  2026 — nine weighted parameters, MIIs only, first computation for the half-year ending 31
  March 2027.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/sebi-lodr-cyber-disclosure-obligations — The cyber limbs
  of the SEBI LODR Regulations, 2015: Reg. 30(6) twelve hours, Reg. 27(2)(ba) quarterly with no
  materiality test, Reg. 21(4) risk committee.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/irdai-information-and-cyber-security-guidelines-2026 —
  IRDAI/GA&HR/CIR/MISC/51/4/2026, issued 6 April 2026: the Information and Cyber Security
  Guidelines, 2026, and the compliance year that opened before they did.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/ifsca-cyber-security-guidelines-2025 —
  IFSCA-CSD0MSC/13/2025-DCS, in force 1 April 2025: the GIFT City cyber baseline, its six-hour
  detection clock, and the exemptions restructured in March 2026.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/ifsca-cyber-security-guidelines-amendment-2026 —
  IFSCA-CSD0MSC/1/2026-DCS — The IFSCA amendment of 10 March 2026: para 21 substituted, a new
  para 23 inserted, and an annual audit report added to the conditions for a para 21 exemption.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/ifsca-mii-cyber-security-guidelines-2026 —
  IFSCA-CSD/MSC/2/2026-DCS: the GIFT City MII cyber regime, issued 20 April 2026 and in force
  from 1 April 2026 — twenty days before it was published.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/ifsca-frontier-ai-cyber-advisory-2026 —
  IFSCA-CSD/MSC/3/2026-DCS, in force 4 June 2026. Titled an advisory — but six of its eleven
  annexure items are drafted with “shall”.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/cert-in-directions-2022 — No. 20(3)/2022-CERT-In — The
  CERT-In Directions of 28 April 2022 under section 70B(6) of the IT Act, 2000 — six-hour
  incident reporting, binding almost every organisation in India.
- https://www.bitscore.in/instruments/dpdp-rules-2025 — G.S.R. 846(E), notified 13 November
  2025: the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, commenced in three tranches with full
  compliance from 13 May 2027.
## Threat data

- https://www.bitscore.in/reports/india-threat-scorecard — the India Cyber Threat Scorecard: observed
  cyber threat activity counted across 23 Indian industry verticals, published at the end of
  every month. Aggregate counts only — no organisation is named, described or made identifiable
  in any edition, and the dataset carries no incident-level records. Bands (Elevated, Active,
  Watch, no activity observed) are derived from the incident count by a published threshold, not
  assigned by judgement, and measure observed activity in a vertical rather than the security
  posture of any organisation in it. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, with the current edition
  always at https://www.bitscore.in/scorecard/latest.json and a JSON Schema at
  https://www.bitscore.in/scorecard/schema.json.
- https://www.bitscore.in/reports/india-threat-scorecard/disclosure-check — the disclosure check,
  part of the scorecard: enter an NSE-listed company's legal name, symbol or ISIN and it returns
  that company's own cyber incident filings to NSE under SEBI LODR Regulation 30 — each filing
  linked, its dissemination time, the incident time only where the letter states one, and the
  gap between them. SEBI has not said which Reg. 30(6) limb a cyber incident falls in; BitScore
  reads it as limb (ii), twelve hours, rather than the twenty-four usually quoted. The page itself shows aggregate counts only; it names a company only in answer
  to a query for that company.
- https://www.bitscore.in/reports/india-threat-scorecard/2026-10 — October 2026, 1 October to
  1 November 2026. 55 counted incidents: data breach 33, ransomware 13, underground activity 7,
  malware and hacking 1, vulnerabilities and exploits 1. Nine of the 23 verticals in Elevated, led
  by Government/Politics (12), Finance (6) and Technology (6); eight recorded no observed activity.
  Against September, ransomware fell from 21 to 13 and data breaches rose from 26 to 33: the
  exposure moved from stopped suppliers to leaked customer data. Krybit was again the most active
  group, with four.
- https://www.bitscore.in/reports/india-threat-scorecard/2026-09 — September 2026, the first
  monthly edition, 31 August to 30 September 2026. 67 counted incidents: data breach 26,
  ransomware 21, underground activity 16, APTs 2, malware and hacking 2. Nine of the 23 verticals
  in Elevated, led by Government/Politics (12) and Education (9); five recorded no observed
  activity. Fourteen of the 21 ransomware claims fell in Manufacturing, Engineering, Business
  Services, Transportation and Technology; Krybit was the most active group, with six.
- https://www.bitscore.in/reports/india-threat-scorecard/2026-08 — baseline edition, a quarterly
  window, 30 May to 30 August 2026. 36 counted incidents: ransomware 20, data breach 7,
  underground activity 6, APTs 1, hacktivism 1, malware and hacking 1. Manufacturing and Business
  Services in Elevated on six each; eight of the 23 verticals recorded no observed activity. One
  ransomware group claimed fourteen of the twenty ransomware incidents, and fifteen of the twenty
  affected organisations were suppliers rather than the companies that depend on them.

## Research

- https://www.bitscore.in/reports/india-bfsi-quantum-readiness — the BitScore India BFSI Readiness
  Index, October 2026 edition, measured 15 October and updated 26 October 2026: six externally
  visible readiness signals, plus the eMudhra trust chain and web application security, across all
  125 Indian banks, insurers and market infrastructure institutions on the RBI (49 scheduled
  commercial banks), IRDAI (26 life, 28 general, 8 health insurers) and SEBI (7 exchanges, 2
  depositories, 5 clearing corporations) lists. Findings on 26 October: 76 of 118 main websites
  tested negotiated hybrid post-quantum key exchange (X25519MLKEM768) — banks 24 of 46, public
  sector banks 3 of 12, insurers 46 of 59; 10 of 123 certificates were already within the 100-day
  lifetime that applies from 15 March 2027 (CA/Browser Forum Ballot SC-081v3); 24 of 125 publish
  CAA; 56 of 125 are DNSSEC-signed; 2 of 91 readable sites publish security.txt (RFC 9116), and no
  bank does; 106 of 125 enforce DMARC; none passes all five scored lenses, and none passes all nine
  checks of the Front Door 9 (the best pass seven); 5 of 103 readable homepages grade A or B on web
  application security. After eight eMudhra intermediate CA keys were found recoverable (Mozilla
  Bugzilla 2083449), all 123 certificate chains read were clean of the compromised keys. All 49
  banks serve from .bank.in (RBI/2025-26/28), but only 29 of 47 known previous domains redirect, and
  7 previous domains are live with no DMARC record. Context: RBI's Q-SAFE expert committee (Press
  Release 2026-2027/325, 25 May 2026). Sector aggregates, and not a security rating. Open data under
  CC BY 4.0 at https://www.bitscore.in/readiness/india-bfsi-readiness-2026-10.json and
  https://www.bitscore.in/readiness/india-bfsi-readiness-2026-10.csv.
- https://www.bitscore.in/reports/india-bfsi-quantum-readiness/benchmark — the Front Door 9 report a CISO
  or above can request for their own organisation: nine external readiness checks on their domain,
  including the eMudhra trust-chain test and web application security (CSP), set against the India
  BFSI 125, with a percentile, next steps and an annexure of forensic evidence read twice by
  independent methods and time-stamped in IST. Issued only to an address proven live with a
  one-time code.
- https://www.bitscore.in/festive-playbook-2026 — the Cybersecurity Festive Playbook 2026, for
  Indian BFSI and festive-peak sectors (e-commerce, retail, payments, travel): a 22-page PDF and
  a page mapping the site's 23 tools and its research to the festive weeks from Navratri to
  Bhai Dooj. Figures read at source on 16 October 2026: UPI moved ₹27.28 lakh crore in October
  2025, 9.6% more than September, and its busiest October day was Dhanteras, 18 October 2025, at
  754 million payments (NPCI); CERT-In handled 29.44 lakh incidents in 2025 (PIB, 23 January
  2026). Summarises CERT-In advisories CIAD-2026-0046 (9 October 2026, payment and disbursement
  API abuse at BFSI entities) and CIAD-2026-0049 (15 October 2026, AI agents as attack vectors),
  both rated critical. Includes a festive risk calendar, seven chapters, an AI risk map and a
  four-week checklist.
- https://www.bitscore.in/cyber-weather — Cyber Weather, a daily global forecast of internet
  threat conditions, rebuilt every morning at 07:30 IST from public feeds: SANS ISC (Infocon,
  daily attack records, most-targeted ports), CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue,
  the CVE List with CISA's ADP enrichment, FIRST EPSS, Exploit-DB (public exploits naming a CVE,
  shown as context with no link to exploit code, not scored), abuse.ch URLhaus and ThreatFox, CISA ICS
  advisories, CISA alerts and joint advisories (shown as context, not scored), IODA and
  Cloudflare Radar outages by country, and vendor patch releases (Microsoft, Oracle, Chrome,
  Apple, Debian, Red Hat). Each count is scored against its own history, critical CVEs and
  attack traffic like for like by weekday, and the condition runs Clear, Cloudy, Showers,
  Storm, Severe. A dated advisory can raise it for an event no feed counts, such as a CA
  compromise. An outlook gives the base-rate chance that CISA adds an exploited flaw today and
  tomorrow.
  Aggregate and indicative only; no affected organisation is named, and it is not a measure of
  any organisation's risk.
- https://www.bitscore.in/cyber-weather/api — the Cyber Weather feed for SOC dashboards: GET
  https://www.bitscore.in/api/connector/cyber_weather_today returns the day's condition, points
  per instrument, KEV additions, EPSS risers, the week's public exploits, per-CVE evidence (in KEV,
  public exploit, EPSS), outlook, patch calendar, outages and actions as
  versioned JSON, each field with its source and licence (SANS ISC fields CC BY-NC-SA 4.0,
  Cloudflare Radar CC BY-NC 4.0). Also the cyber_weather_today tool on the MCP connector, and an
  embeddable badge at https://www.bitscore.in/cyber-weather/badge.svg. Poll once after 08:45 IST;
  no SLA. Credit "Cyber Weather by BitScore" with a link.

## Blog

- https://www.bitscore.in/blog — the BitScore blog: one post a month recapping observed cyber
  threat activity in India, written for a CFO or board member rather than a security team. The
  posts narrate and the India Cyber Threat Scorecard counts — the scorecard above carries the grid,
  the band thresholds and the citable dataset for the same window, and neither repeats the
  other. Same rules as the scorecard: aggregate counts only, no organisation named, described
  or made identifiable, and a sector the month's source did not cover is reported as unmeasured
  rather than as zero. Dates are observation and publication dates, not attack dates. RSS at
  https://www.bitscore.in/blog/feed.xml.
- https://www.bitscore.in/blog/india-cyber-threats-october-2026 — October 2026: 55 incidents
  affecting Indian organisations between 1 October and 1 November, ransomware down from 21 to 13,
  data breaches up from 26 to 33, six claimed datasets of three million records or more, and data
  from September's ransomware victims published in October. Narrates the October 2026 edition of
  the scorecard.
- https://www.bitscore.in/blog/india-cyber-threats-september-2026 — September 2026: 67 incidents
  affecting Indian organisations between 31 August and 30 September, access to company networks
  offered for sale from $700, fourteen of 21 ransomware claims on the supplier side, and a North
  Korean group's breach of an Indian IT services provider. Narrates the September 2026 edition
  of the scorecard.

## Resources

- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/india-cyber-security-regulations — the pillar page for Indian
  cyber regulation: every instrument in one table (RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, CERT-In, DPDP) with who each
  binds and where to read it, then a route from entity type to the instrument that governs it.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/india-cyber-regulation-register — the complete register:
  thirty-two instruments across the RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, IFSCA, CERT-In and MeitY, each with its own
  reference number, issue date, in-force status, the dates it sets, and the date it was last
  re-read at source. Published as an open dataset under CC BY 4.0 —
  https://www.bitscore.in/register/india-cyber-regulations.json and .csv, with a JSON Schema at
  https://www.bitscore.in/register/schema.json and a dated log of every addition, removal and
  material change at https://www.bitscore.in/register/changes.json. An OpenAPI 3.1 description of this dataset and
  the India Cyber Threat Scorecard, as unauthenticated GET operations, is at
  https://www.bitscore.in/register/openapi.json — importable directly as a GPT Action or an
  agent tool definition.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/rbi-cybersecurity-directions-2026 — the RBI issued seven
  parallel Cybersecurity, Technology: Risk, Resilience and Assurance Framework Directions on
  31 July 2026, one each for commercial banks (RBI/DoS/2026-27/410), small finance banks (419),
  payments banks (428), urban co-operative banks (437), all India financial institutions (456),
  NBFCs (461) and credit information companies (470). Which one applies, what all seven require,
  how obligations scale by NBFC layer and UCB level, and why the 2025 outsourcing Directions are a
  separate track the 2026 Directions preserve rather than absorb. Regional Rural Banks and Local
  Area Banks have no instrument in this family.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/rbi-cybersecurity-directions-nbfc — the NBFC limb,
  RBI/DoS/2026-27/461, which is built differently from the other six: six chapters rather than
  eight, 158 paragraphs rather than 233, and three obligation chapters drafted as alternatives
  rather than as a ladder. Chapter III binds Base Layer NBFCs below Rs 500 crore of assets and
  Core Investment Companies, Chapter IV binds Base Layer NBFCs at Rs 500 crore and above, and
  Chapter V binds Middle Layer and above excluding Core Investment Companies — so exactly one
  chapter applies to any given firm. The Rs 500 crore split does not exist in the scale-based
  regulatory framework the Directions borrow their vocabulary from. Also covers the two different
  entities this family abbreviates to CIC: a Core Investment Company under the NBFC Directions,
  and a Credit Information Company under RBI/DoS/2026-27/470.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/rbi-cybersecurity-directions-urban-co-operative-banks — the
  UCB limb, RBI/DoS/2026-27/437, which grades each Primary Co-operative Bank into Level I to IV by
  its digital depth and interconnectedness to the payment systems rather than by asset size. The
  chapters are cumulative, which is the opposite of the NBFC instrument issued the same day: Level
  I takes Chapters II and III, Level II adds IV, Level III adds V, Level IV adds VI. A Chief
  Information Security Officer is first required at Level II and a Cyber Security Operations Centre
  only at Level IV, so the level decides the shape of the security budget. Proportionality runs
  upward voluntarily and never downward.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/sebi-cscrf-compliance — SEBI's Cybersecurity and Cyber
  Resilience Framework: the six circulars that make it up, the five RE categories and why the
  category is re-fixed each April on the previous year's data, the Cyber Capability Index
  (third-party assessment half-yearly for MIIs, self-assessment for Qualified REs), SOC and
  Market-SOC, VAPT by CERT-In empanelled auditors with three-month closure, SBOM, and the
  31 August 2025 deadline reached after two extensions.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/sebi-cscrf-incident-response — what CSCRF requires after
  the six-hour and twenty-four-hour filings: the Annexure-O reports (interim at 3 days,
  mitigation at 7, RCA at 30, incident VAPT and closure at 45, forensic report within 75 for
  High and Critical incidents), IT Committee review before submission, severity and HPSC-CS
  review, the August 2025 rewrite of the two-hour RTO into a design-and-test standard with RPO
  15 minutes for critical systems, live drills rather than tabletops, SOC exemptions, and the
  absence of any CSCRF log-retention period (CERT-In's rolling 180 days binds).
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/sebi-it-resilience-index — SEBI's IT Resilience Index
  (HO/47/18/11(1)2026-MRD-TPD1/I/19509/2026, 24 August 2026), which binds Market
  Infrastructure Institutions alone and carves out AMC Repo Clearing Ltd by name: the nine
  weighted parameters totalling 100, the requirement that the computation be system-driven
  rather than done by hand, the Early Warning System, and the four dates from the Industry
  Standards Forum's sub-parameters on 30 November 2026 to the first submission for the
  half-year ending 31 March 2027. Not the same thing as the CSCRF Cyber Capability Index.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/irdai-cyber-security-guidelines-2026 — IRDAI's Information and
  Cyber Security Guidelines, 2026 (IRDAI/GA&HR/CIR/MISC/51/4/2026, 6 April 2026), superseding the
  2023 Guidelines: who is in scope across insurers, intermediaries and IIB, the quarterly ISRMC
  cadence, the CISO who may not report to the head of IT or carry business targets, the
  twelve-month clock on closing audit gaps, and the third-party and cloud obligations.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/cert-in-directions-six-hour-incident-reporting — the CERT-In
  Directions of 28 April 2022 (No. 20(3)/2022-CERT-In), in force since June 2022 under section
  70B(6) of the IT Act 2000. Binds service providers, intermediaries, data centres, body corporate
  and Government organisations — no sector test, no size threshold. Six directions, not one:
  NTP clock synchronisation to NIC or NPL; mandatory reporting of twenty Annexure I incident
  categories within six hours of noticing or being notified; a registered Point of Contact and
  compliance with CERT-In orders in the timeframe given; 180 days of ICT logs retained within
  Indian jurisdiction; five-year subscriber records for data centres, VPS, cloud and VPN
  providers; five-year KYC and transaction records for virtual asset providers. Non-compliance
  may invite punitive action under s.70B(7). Reporting to a sector regulator does not discharge
  it — the RBI's DAKSH six-hour clock runs concurrently, not instead.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/dpdp-act-security-obligations-for-data-fiduciaries — the
  security side of the DPDP Rules, 2025 (G.S.R. 846(E), notified 13 November 2025). Commencement
  is in three tranches: Rules 1, 2 and 17–21 on notification; Rule 4 (Consent Managers) on
  13 November 2026; Rules 3, 5–16, 22 and 23 — including security safeguards and breach
  intimation — on 13 May 2027, so those obligations are dated rather than live. Rule 6 names seven
  minimum safeguards: encryption, obfuscation, masking or tokenisation; access control; logs and
  monitoring; backups; one year of log and data retention; security provisions in Data Processor
  contracts; and technical and organisational measures. Rule 7 sets two clocks — intimation to
  affected Data Principals without delay and with no severity threshold, and a full report to the
  Data Protection Board within seventy-two hours of becoming aware. Rule 13 adds an annual DPIA
  and audit for Significant Data Fiduciaries, algorithmic due diligence, and localisation of
  government-specified personal data. A rating is not DPDP compliance and the page says so.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/agentic-ai-accountability-india — who is accountable when an AI
  agent acts, under Indian law. India has no AI statute. Three instruments are routinely cited as
  though they were equivalent and they are not: SEBI's three amendment regulations of 6 February
  2025 are binding and in force from gazette publication on 10 February 2025; the RBI's FREE-AI
  report of 13 August 2025 is a committee's 26 recommendations, binding on nobody until adopted by
  a Direction; MeitY's India AI Governance Guidelines of 5 November 2025 are expressly voluntary
  and describe voluntary frameworks as lacking legal enforceability. SEBI's rule is three parallel
  amendments, not one — regulation 16C for intermediaries (SEBI/LAD-NRO/GN/2025/226), regulation
  39B for recognised stock exchanges and clearing corporations (227), and regulation 82AA for
  depositories (225). Each makes the entity solely responsible for the privacy, security and
  integrity of data, for the output arising from the tools, and for compliance — whether the tool
  was built in-house or procured from a third party, and irrespective of scale of adoption. The
  depositories amendment is widely reported as commencing 1 April 2025; the proviso to its
  regulation 2 puts the AI clause into force on gazette publication instead, and 1 April 2025 is
  the commencement of the fee provisions in the same notification. No Indian regulator yet requires
  a kill switch — that is in SEBI's consultation paper of 20 June 2025, still a draft.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/cdsl-sebi-order-asset-inventory — SEBI's ₹1 crore order against
  CDSL, read as an asset-inventory lesson. One internet-facing server left off the critical-asset
  list, and therefore out of testing and monitoring; the disaster recovery site was encrypted too.
  Why asset inventories fail in practice, and what an externally observed footprint catches that a
  self-maintained list misses.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/global-cybersecurity-frameworks-india — the thirteen names
  most often cited as "cybersecurity frameworks" — NIST CSF 2.0, ISO/IEC 27001, CIS Controls,
  SOC 2, COBIT, PCI DSS, CMMC, NERC CIP, HIPAA, FISMA, GDPR, DORA and NIS2 — sorted by what kind
  of claim each one actually makes: voluntary guidance, a certifiable standard, an attestation, a
  contractual requirement or enforceable law. None of them discharges an Indian entity's own
  duties under the RBI, SEBI's CSCRF, IRDAI's 2026 Guidelines, CERT-In's six-hour rule or the
  DPDP Rules; a firm operating in India typically needs both. Maps each global name to the
  domestic instrument that keeps applying alongside it, and notes that IFSCA's 2026 MII
  Guidelines are the one Indian instrument to write ISO 27001 certification into a compliance
  date.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/nis2-dora-sec-vendor-requirements — NIS2, DORA and SEC
  Regulation S-P compared on what each demands of third parties: who is in scope, when each bites,
  and what evidence satisfies a supervisor. Written for Indian firms serving European and US
  clients, who inherit these obligations through their customers rather than directly.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/cyber-resilience-act-reporting-obligations — the EU Cyber
  Resilience Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, applies in general from 11 December 2027, but Article
  14 applies from 11 September 2026 and Chapter IV from 11 June 2026. What Article 14 requires: a
  24-hour early warning, a 72-hour notification and a final report, to ENISA and a coordinating
  CSIRT simultaneously, for actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents. Unlike NIS2,
  DORA and Reg S-P, it binds a non-EU manufacturer directly — the test is the product being made
  available on the Union market, not where the company sits — and Article 69(3) applies it to
  products already on the market rather than only to those shipped after 2027.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/incident-reporting-deadlines-india-eu-us — nine incident
  reporting clocks across India, the EU and the US, compared on what each one runs from rather than
  only on how long it is. CERT-In's six hours starts on being brought to notice; NIS2's 24 hours on
  becoming aware; DORA's four hours on classification as major, with a 24-hour backstop from
  awareness; the SEC's four business days on the materiality determination. Includes the DORA
  weekend extension that does not apply to credit institutions or NIS2 essential entities, and why
  a US-listed Indian issuer's Form 6-K obligation is derivative of its Indian disclosure.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/cyber-security-rating-vendors-india — which security ratings
  platforms Indian buyers can shortlist, how a ratings platform differs from a CERT-In empanelled
  audit and from VAPT, and six criteria that separate them: independent validation, attribution
  accuracy across Indian group structures, mapping to RBI/SEBI/IRDAI, refresh cadence, local
  contracting, and how your vendor list is handled under DPDP. Covers Bitsight's 2026 analyst
  placements (Forrester Wave Leader, GigaOm Radar Leader, Gartner Magic Quadrant Visionary) and
  BitScore's delivery of the Bitsight platform, exclusively, since 2016.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/what-is-a-cyber-security-rating — how the 250–900 scale is
  calculated, the four signal families, what the bands mean, and what a rating cannot tell you.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/bitsight-vs-securityscorecard — one comparison covering three
  vendors, with a section each at #securityscorecard, #riskrecon and #upguard. SecurityScorecard
  turns on who validated the score: Bitsight's breach correlation was examined in several outside
  studies (Marsh McLennan, Moody's and Gallagher Re among others), SecurityScorecard's in one study
  co-authored with Marsh McLennan's Global Cyber Risk Analytics Center, alongside its own testing. Also numeric scale vs letter grades, and where
  SecurityScorecard fits better (supply-chain detection; boards that will not engage with a number).
  RiskRecon turns on refresh cadence: RiskRecon updates ratings every 14 days, Bitsight daily,
  which decides it if you are buying early warning on supplier compromise. RiskRecon has no
  dedicated EASM tool and works from customer-supplied vendor lists for fourth parties; it fits
  better inside the Mastercard ecosystem and where finding triage, not detection, is the
  bottleneck. UpGuard turns on whether you are buying a workflow or a measurement: UpGuard is
  built around questionnaire automation and vendor collaboration, Bitsight around continuous
  external measurement, and UpGuard fits better for mid-market budgets and questionnaire-heavy
  programmes that must run faster.
- That comparison is written by a Bitsight partner, with competitive figures sourced to
  bitsight.com/compare and presented as vendor-published material. Issued patents: 70+.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/rbi-cyber-security-compliance-for-boards — what Indian boards
  must evidence under the seven RBI Cybersecurity, Technology: Risk, Resilience and Assurance
  Framework Directions issued 31 July 2026, SEBI CSCRF, the IRDAI Information and Cyber Security
  Guidelines 2026, CERT-In directions and the DPDP Rules 2025.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/third-party-risk-management-continuous-monitoring — the
  jurisdiction-neutral TPRM guide. Questionnaires are self-reported, point-in-time, unverifiable at
  scale and blind past the first tier. DORA Article 28 keeps a financial entity fully responsible
  when it uses ICT providers, requires a register of information, due diligence and a concentration
  assessment before contracting, termination rights that include circumstances found through
  monitoring, and exit strategies for critical or important functions. NIS2 Article 21(2)(d)
  requires supply chain security; NYDFS 500.11 requires a written third-party provider policy with
  periodic assessment; SEC Regulation S-K Item 106 requires disclosure of whether processes exist to
  oversee third-party cyber risk. Tier by impact, monitor continuously, write rating thresholds
  into contracts, map fourth parties.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/third-party-risk-management-indian-bfsi — why questionnaire
  based vendor assessment fails, and how to build a tiered, continuously monitored TPRM programme
  under the RBI (Commercial Banks – Managing Risks in Outsourcing) Directions, 2025 issued
  28 November 2025, which repealed the 2023 IT outsourcing Master Direction for commercial banks
  and sit alongside, not inside, the cybersecurity Directions of 31 July 2026.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/security-questionnaires-vs-security-ratings — questionnaires
  and ratings compared as instruments rather than products, with a row-by-row table of which one
  can answer which question about a vendor. Not a replacement decision: a rating observes
  internet-facing evidence continuously and independently but sees nothing behind the perimeter,
  while a questionnaire reaches encryption at rest, privileged access, staff vetting, recovery
  testing and sub-processors — and describes a single date, from the only available source. What
  only a questionnaire can do: reach inside, create a contractual record of what was represented,
  and satisfy an obligation that names the assessment itself. What only measurement can do:
  produce observed evidence, detect change, and cover the whole estate including undeclared
  fourth parties. Neither satisfies a CERT-In empanelled audit under SEBI CSCRF, and neither
  discharges the DPDP Rule 6(f) processor-contract obligation. Written by a company that sells
  the measurement half and says so.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/ai-vendor-risk-attack-surface — what agentic AI does to your
  attack surface when your vendors adopt it. The July 2026 case in which an autonomous agent
  reached a production system through a third party unrelated to its task, why an annual
  questionnaire cannot see this, four questions for a supplier (agent credentials and owners,
  kill-switch authority, agent activity in logs, what is ingested and executed), and a
  five-step agentic vendor risk assessment: scope, evidence and red flags, the outside view,
  contract terms, and re-assessment triggers.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/what-is-a-good-bitsight-score — what counts as a good rating:
  the bands (Advanced 740–900, Intermediate 640–730, Basic 250–630), why the peer percentile matters
  more than the absolute number, what "good" means to an insurer, a customer and a board, and what a
  high rating does not evidence.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/how-to-read-a-cyber-risk-rating-report — how to read the executive
  Cyber Risk Rating Report panel by panel: the rating and band, the percentile and industry average,
  the twelve-month trend with its highest and lowest dates, the ransomware and incident multiples
  against companies rated 750 and above (comparisons, not probabilities), publicly disclosed
  incidents over eighteen months, and the Primary Rating note. Closes with the questions to take
  into the analyst walkthrough. Describes the structure of Bitsight's specimen and reproduces none
  of its figures.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/glossary — 30 defined terms covering the 250–900 scale, every
  risk vector (botnet infections, spam propagation, malware servers, unsolicited communications,
  Critical Vulnerability Management, open ports, web application security, TLS/SSL, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DNSSEC (beta), EASM)
  and the third-party programme vocabulary (tiering, fourth-party risk, concentration risk, exit
  readiness, time to remediate).
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/bitsight-attribution-indian-group-structures — why asset
  attribution breaks on Indian group structures, and how to fix it. Attribution infers ownership
  from public signals — registration, DNS, certificates, IP allocation — which identify a brand
  far more reliably than a legal entity. A holding company running a bank, an insurer, an AMC and
  an NBFC has one name, three regulators and often one domain tree. Five presentations: sibling
  entities' findings, divested businesses whose DNS was never repointed, reissued IP ranges,
  shared hosting, and real exposure that is missing because an acquisition was never associated.
  An asset appearing against two companies usually means a duplicate entity record rather than
  shared infrastructure, so the fix is a merge not a removal. Establish the licensed entity first,
  reconcile registrar, network and cloud lists, and re-run after every transaction. Also covers
  monitoring the wrong entity of a vendor's group — the listed parent rather than the subsidiary
  you contracted with.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/cyber-insurance-and-security-ratings — what a security
  rating does and does not change in cyber underwriting. It speaks to the probability of an
  incident, not its severity, and acts on the underwriter's loss assumption rather than on price
  directly. Limits, retention, industry, revenue and claims history are priced independently of
  it. There is no published exchange rate between rating points and premium in any market
  and the page declines to invent one. The sharper exposure is the proposal form: control
  attestations are given as warranties and several — mail authentication, certificate and
  protocol configuration, exposed services — are externally observable, so a gap between what is
  attested and what is visible is discoverable before binding or after a loss. Renewal is where
  trajectory shows up, since an underwriter can take a snapshot themselves but cannot
  reconstruct the year. BitScore does not place insurance and is not an intermediary.
- https://www.bitscore.in/resources/how-to-improve-your-bitsight-score — which findings move the
  rating, in what order to fix them, how fast the score responds, and where local India support
  shortens the remediation cycle.

## Open source

BitScoreCoWork — an MIT-licensed Claude plugin published by BitScore: a zero-dependency MCP
server wrapping the Bitsight REST API, plus twenty skills (`mycompany`, `myportfolio`,
`watchtower`, `vendor-brief`, `cyber-weather`, `cve-sweep`, `threat-attestation`, `boardpack`, `peer-index`,
`quantify`, `regmap`, `assurance-pack`, `remediation-roadmap`, `remediation-plan`,
`credential-exposure`, `entity-scope`, `incident-notify`, `tabletop`, `vapt-plan`,
`security-test-plan`) that turn ratings data into vendor decisions, exposure sweeps, board packs,
framework evidence, regulatory incident notifications and scoped, authorisation-gated
security-testing plans. The current release, v0.9.0, adds `cyber-weather`: BitScore's daily Cyber
Weather forecast (https://www.bitscore.in/cyber-weather) inside Claude — the CVEs CISA added to its
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue this week, the EPSS watch list and the patch calendar —
with each of those CVEs checked against the user's own company and portfolio when a Bitsight token
is set. The forecast needs no token. v0.8.0 added three skills on Bitsight data the plugin
had not read before: `remediation-plan` reads Bitsight's Risk Remediation Plan for the user's own
organisation (fix order and fixes per grade step, and for Critical Vulnerability Management the
grade Bitsight projects at 30, 60 and 90 days); `credential-exposure` triages credential leaks
across the portfolio by date and data type and returns no credential values; `threat-attestation`
sets companies' statements about a threat against observed exposure. v0.7.0 extended
`incident-notify` and `regmap` beyond India: SEC Form 8-K and 6-K, NYDFS Part 500, the federal bank incident rule,
HIPAA and the FTC Safeguards Rule in the US; NIS2, DORA, GDPR and the Cyber Resilience Act in the
EU, each clock from its own trigger and several from a decision the entity makes. v0.4.2 mapped `regmap` to the
RBI (Commercial Banks – Cybersecurity, Technology: Risk, Resilience and Assurance Framework)
Directions, 2026 — one of seven such Directions issued on 31 July 2026, one per RBI entity
class — keeps those separate from the RBI (Commercial Banks – Managing Risks in Outsourcing)
Directions, 2025 which they preserve rather than absorb, and asks the user for their own
policy, VA/PT and audit material when RBI is the chosen framework. v0.4.1 and v0.4.2 were
correctness releases: every instrument in the incident-reporting reference has now been read at
source, and five clocks were corrected — DPDP breach duties do not commence until 13 May 2027,
IRDAI's 2026 Guidelines carry no 24-hour step, SEBI LODR Reg. 30(6) is twelve hours for an
incident emanating from within the entity rather than twenty-four, board-decided events are
thirty minutes rather than twelve hours, and Reg. 27(2)(ba) requires disclosure in the quarterly
corporate governance report with no materiality test at all.
Source: https://github.com/nimitt-IN/bitscorecowork

## Partners

- Bitsight: https://www.bitsight.com/
- Anthropic / Claude: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/

## Contact

- Legal name: BitScore Cybertech LLP (LLPIN AAI-0753, registered with the Ministry of
  Corporate Affairs, India). BitScore is an authorised Bitsight partner and a separate legal
  entity from Bitsight Technologies, Inc.
- Legal Entity Identifier: 25490047Q5WX83TBLL49 (GLEIF)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141611511
- Registered office: Block B, Satyam Corporate Square, Behind Rajpath Club, Bodakdev,
  Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380059, India
- Sales: nimitt [at] bitscore [dot] ai [dot] in
- Security: security [at] bitscore [dot] in
- Both addresses are written above with [at] and [dot] to keep them out of automated
  harvesting. Read them as ordinary email addresses.