CloudEnsure helped a well-funded insurance startup with continuous compliance tracking of their cloud accounts, helping them meet all compliance requirements of IRDAI regulatory body and eventually receiving a grant to sell insurance products in India.
The customer
CloudEnsure helped a well-funded insurance startup with continuous compliance tracking of their cloud accounts, helping them meet all compliance requirements of IRDAI regulatory body and eventually receiving a grant to sell insurance products in India.
What is the problem statement?
The customer was setting up their data center entirely on AWS. Being a startup in the insurance sector in India, the customer is required to apply for IRDAI license which will allow them to operate as an insurance provider in the Indian region. The IRDAI standards for the cloud was a continuously evolving one and this required the customer to run continuous audits on their AWS account to get prepared for the audit day.
How did CloudEnsure help fix this problem?
CloudEnsure, with its CIS compliance audit modules, was able to help the customer with 24*7 tracking of compliance on the cloud. CIS compliance generally covers almost all possible security and operational metrics, hence CIS standards were followed to adhere with IRDAI requirements.
Benefits to the customer?
Customer was all prepared on the audit day with the required compliance in their cloud setup. This customer turned out to be one of the fastest to obtain IRDAI license in India and they could start market operations within 6 months from the starting up.