Vipin Kumar Tiwari Blog

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Welcome to the Blog!   If you spend your days building security frameworks, managing enterprise risk, or preparing for upcoming audits, this space is built for you. Here, we skip the fluff and focus on real-world IT governance, technical audit pipelines, and practical compliance design. Take what you learn here, use the checklists, and let's build systems that actually hold up under pressure. If you are preparing for upcoming audits, you have probably come across a situation where a policy looks great on paper while the actual system tells a completely different story. Let's discuss about why that happens and how we remediate it. Table of Contents The Gap Between Approved Policies and Daily Real Time Operational Reality How We Test Controls ...

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Hello security leads, cloud architects, and GRC auditors!   Welcome back to the blog. In rapid-growth cloud environments, permissions can quickly get out of hand. As DevOps teams deploy multi-cloud infrastructure and manage microservices across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), access boundaries often blur. Today, we are opening up the auditor's playbook on Segregation of Duties (SoD) to show you how to audit, discover, and remediate high-risk permission overlaps before they turn into major security incidents or regulatory non-conformities. Introduction In enterprise cloud security auditing,  a common weakness often goes unnoticed: trusting role names without verifying the permissions and actions those roles actually allow ...

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Hello security leads, privacy officers, and enterprise architects!   Welcome back to the blog. With India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) fundamentally reshaping how customer and employee data is handled, enterprises are moving quickly from policy writing to technical execution. If you are tasked with building or auditing your company's data privacy controls, this guide is for you. Today, we are breaking down how to design a resilient, tech-first DPDPA compliance architecture that satisfies regulatory requirements without slowing down business operations. Introduction Across corporate India, a major operational gap persists in privacy management: treating data protection as a legal paperwork exercise rather than an engineering requirement . During rea...

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.   Hello security professionals, compliance leads, and auditors!   Welcome back to the blog. Whether you are gearing up for your very first ISO 27001 audit or managing cyber security risk management across security across a large enterprise, I’m glad you’re here. Today, we are tackling one of the biggest—and most common—pitfalls in modern GRC: relying on static screenshots as proof of operational security. Introduction In enterprise security auditing, a critical flaw persists: treating the simple presence of administrative paperwork as absolute proof that a system is secure. During cyber security audit and compliance assessments across heavily regulated sectors, organizations routinely present mountains of documentation—signed policy PDFs, cropped system screenshots,...