Comprehensive understanding of data privacy and cybersecurity regulations, standards and best practices uniquely tailored for the BFSI sector globally.
Equip learners to recognize, interpret, and apply requirements of leading privacy and security frameworks (GDPR, PCI DSS, GLBA, RBI Master Directions, etc.), and design robust controls for data confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience in financial systems.
Detailed overview of PCI DSS evolution, cardholder data lifecycle, payment gateway integrations, tokenization, point-to-point encryption (P2PE), penalties for non-compliance, and impact of digital payments on security architecture.
Integrating threat intelligence, proactive security testing, continuous vulnerability scanning, patch management cycles, red/blue team exercises, and sectoral sharing initiatives (FS-ISAC).
Roles and response plans for security incidents, regulatory breach notification timelines, investigation processes, reporting standards, public communication, and customer trust restoration.
Examines GDPR, CCPA, India's DPDP Act, and APAC/EMEA banking privacy laws, consent requirements, data localization, rights management, lawful bases for processing, and the impact of extraterritorial regulations.
GLBA, RBI and MAS/Monetary Authority of Singapore requirements; privacy notices, third party risk, customer redress, legacy data management, breach reporting, and compliance auditing.
NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001/2, SWIFT CSF, defense-in-depth strategies, monitoring and alerting, privilege management, attack surface reduction, third party/vendor risks.
Principles of Privacy/Security by Design, threat modeling, secure coding, DevSecOps pipelines, OWASP top 10 for BFSI apps, data minimization and retention policies.
Financial industry cloud adoption models, security controls for SaaS/IaaS/PaaS, residency restrictions, multi-cloud strategies, encryption, and regulatory auditing in the cloud.