Q: 11
SIMULATION
[Scenario Based Questions]
RCI and PCM
The Digital Personal Data protection Act 2023 has been passed recently. The Act shall be supported
by subordinate Rules for various sections that will gradually bring more clarity into various aspects of
the law. First set of Rules are yet to be formulated and notified. A public sector bank has identified
that it collects and processes personal data in physical documents and electronic form. The bank
intends to assess its existing compliance level and proactively undertake an exercise to ensure
compliance. Since this is the first time the bank is attempting to comply with a comprehensive
privacy law, it has hired a legal expert in Privacy law to assist with initial assessment and compliance
activities. As part of the initial visibility exercise the consultant identified that the bank collects and
generates a significant amount of personal data in physical and digital form. The data may be upto
200 million customers' dat
a. It is identified that customer onboarding is also done through various business correspondents in
the field who collect and process personal data in physical and digital form on behalf of the bank for
the purpose of opening bank accounts and this data is shared with the bank through various
channels. There are upto 10 business correspondent companies that have been appointed by the
bank across the country for such onboarding. These companies further appoint individual contractors
on the field to face the customers. The legal consultant also identified that there are a huge number
of employees and contractors engaged by the bank whose personal data is being collected and
processed by the bank for HR purposes including biometric based attendance. While the intent of
initial assessment was the new Act, the legal consultant has also identified that the Bank collects
Aadhaar numbers (voluntary submission) from customers and employees and may be subject to
Aadhaar Act compliance. It also came as a surprise that the bank wasn't aware of the data breach
reporting mandate by one of the regulatory bodies under the Information Technology Act 2000 and
that it was a criminal offense. The Bank generally outsources all non-core activities such as call
centers which are handled by an Indian BPO company and document warehousing which is handled
by another company. The Bank has also moved many of its applications to a known cloud provider as
part of its digital strategy and there may be data transfer aspects associated with the same. On
review of various contracts with third parties it was identified that the bank has signed standard
terms of the cloud provider and has signed contracts with third parties which were in standard
format of the third parties. Data protection obligations are not clear or available in these contracts.
Bank leadership has been of the opinion that even the third parties should comply with the laws and
robust contracts on legal compliance may not be needed. The legal consultant is not just expected to
help identify gaps. assist in fixing the gaps but also to help implement controls and processes to
continuously comply with evolving Rules under the new Act and also manage data protection with
various third parties that may be appointed in the future.
(Note: Candidates are requested to make and state assumptions wherever appropriate to reach a
definitive conclusion)
Introduction and Background
XYZ is a major India based IT and Business Process Management (BPM) service provider listed at BSE
and NSE. It has more than 1.5 lakh employees operating in 100 offices across 30 countries. It serves
more than 500 clients across industry verticals - BFSI, Retail, Government, Healthcare, Telecom
among others in Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa. The company provides IT
services including application development and maintenance, IT Infrastructure management,
consulting, among others. It also offers IT products mainly for its BFSI customers.
The company is witnessing phenomenal growth in the BPM services over last few years including
Finance and Accounting including credit card processing, Payroll processing, Customer support, Legal
Process Outsourcing, among others and has rolled out platform based services. Most of the
company's revenue comes from the US from the BFSI sector. In order to diversify its portfolio, the
company is looking to expand its operations in Europe. India, too has attracted company's attention
given the phenomenal increase in domestic IT spend esp. by the government through various large
scale IT projects. The company is also very aggressive in the cloud and mobility space, with a strong
focus on delivery of cloud services. When it comes to expanding operations in Europe, company is
facing difficulties in realizing the full potential of the market because of privacy related concerns of
the clients arising from the stringent regulatory requirements based on EU General Data Protection
Regulation (EU GDPR).
To get better access to this market, the company decided to invest in privacy, so that it is able to
provide increased assurance to potential clients in the EU and this will also benefit its US operations
because privacy concerns are also on rise in the US. It will also help company leverage outsourcing
opportunities in the Healthcare sector in the US which would involve protection of sensitive medical
records of the US citizens. The company believes that privacy will also be a key differentiator in the
cloud business going forward. In short, privacy was taken up as a strategic initiative in the company
in early 2011.
Since XYZ had an internal consulting arm, it assigned the responsibility of designing and
implementing an enterprise wide privacy program to the consulting arm. The consulting arm had
very good expertise in information security consulting but had limited expertise in the privacy
domain. The project was to be driven by CIO's office, in close consultation with the Corporate
Information Security and Legal functions.
Why did the Bank not identify till date that they were subject to various other laws related to
personal data? What processes and controls can the legal consultant help the bank with which would
help them avoid such gaps with respect to future regulations and rules issued under the new Act?
Please answer with respect to the RCI practice area. (upto 250 words)
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Q: 12
SIMULATION
[Scenario Based Questions]
FILL BLANK
PIS
The company has a well-defined and effectively implemented security policy. As in case of access
control, the security controls vary in different client relationships based on the client requirements
but certain basic or hygiene security practices / controls are implemented organization wide. The
consultants have advised the information security function to realign the company’s security policy,
risk assessment, data classification, etc to include privacy aspects. But the consultants are struggling
to make information security function understand what exact changes need to be made and the
security function itself is unable to figure it out.
(Note: Candidates are requested to make and state assumptions wherever appropriate to reach a
definitive conclusion)
Introduction and Background
XYZ is a major India based IT and Business Process Management (BPM) service provider listed at BSE
and NSE. It has more than 1.5 lakh employees operating in 100 offices across 30 countries. It serves
more than 500 clients across industry verticals — BFSI, Retail, Government, Healthcare, Telecom
among others in Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Afric
a. The company provides IT services including application development and maintenance, IT
Infrastructure management, consulting, among others. It also offers IT products mainly for its BFSI
customers.
The company is witnessing phenomenal growth in the BPM services over last few years including
Finance and Accounting including credit card processing, Payroll processing, Customer support, Legal
Process Outsourcing, among others and has rolled out platform based services. Most of the
company’s revenue comes from the US from the BFSI sector. In order to diversify its portfolio, the
company is looking to expand its operations in Europe. India, too has attracted company’s attention
given the phenomenal increase in domestic IT spend esp. by the government through various large
scale IT projects. The company is also very aggressive in the cloud and mobility space, with a strong
focus on delivery of cloud services. When it comes to expanding operations in Europe, company is
facing difficulties in realizing the full potential of the market because of privacy related concerns of
the clients arising from the stringent regulatory requirements based on EU General Data Protection
Regulation (EU GDPR).
To get better access to this market, the company decided to invest in privacy, so that it is able to
provide increased assurance to potential clients in the EU and this will also benefit its US operations
because privacy concerns are also on rise in the US. It will also help company leverage outsourcing
opportunities in the Healthcare sector in the US which would involve protection of sensitive medical
records of the US citizens. The company believes that privacy will also be a key differentiator in the
cloud business going forward. In short, privacy was taken up as a strategic initiative in the company
in early 2011.
Since XYZ had an internal consulting arm, it assigned the responsibility of designing and
implementing an enterprise wide privacy program to the consulting arm. The consulting arm had
very good expertise in information security consulting but had limited expertise in the privacy
domain. The project was to be driven by CIO's office, in close consultation with the Corporate
Information Security and Legal functions.
Can you please guide the information security function to realign company’s security initiatives to
include privacy protection, keeping in mind that the client security requirements would vary across
relationships? (250 to 500 words)
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Q: 13
SIMULATION
[Scenario Based Questions]
FILL BLANK
IUA and PAT
The company has a very mature enterprise level access control policy to restrict access to
information. There is a single sign-on platform available to access company resources such as email,
intranet, servers, etc. However, the access policy in client relationships varies depending on the
client requirements. In fact, in many cases clients provide access ids to the employees of the
company and manage them. Some clients also put technical controls to limit access to information
such data masking tool, encryption, and anonymizing data, among others. Some clients also record
the data collection process to monitor if the employee of the company does not collect more data
than is required. Taking cue from the best practices implemented by the clients, the company,
through the consultants, thought of realigning its access control policy to include control on data
collection and data usage by the business functions and associated third parties. As a first step, the
consultants advised the company to start monitoring the PI collection, usage and access by business
functions without their knowledge. The IT function was given the responsibility to do the monitoring,
as majority of the information was handled electronically. The analysis showed that many times,
more information than necessary was collected by the some functions, however, no instances of
misuse could be identified.
After few days of this exercise, a complaint was registered by a female company employee in the HR
function against a male employee in IT support function. The female employee accused the male
employee of accessing her photographs stored on a shared drive and posting it on a social
networking site.
(Note: Candidates are requested to make and state assumptions wherever appropriate to reach a
definitive conclusion)
Introduction and Background
XYZ is a major India based IT and Business Process Management (BPM) service provider listed at BSE
and NSE. It has more than 1.5 lakh employees operating in 100 offices across 30 countries. It serves
more than 500 clients across industry verticals — BFSI, Retail, Government, Healthcare, Telecom
among others in Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Afric
a. The company provides IT services including application development and maintenance, IT
Infrastructure management, consulting, among others. It also offers IT products mainly for its BFSI
customers.
The company is witnessing phenomenal growth in the BPM services over last few years including
Finance and Accounting including credit card processing, Payroll processing, Customer support, Legal
Process Outsourcing, among others and has rolled out platform based services. Most of the
company’s revenue comes from the US from the BFSI sector. In order to diversify its portfolio, the
company is looking to expand its operations in Europe. India, too has attracted company’s attention
given the phenomenal increase in domestic IT spend esp. by the government through various large
scale IT projects. The company is also very aggressive in the cloud and mobility space, with a strong
focus on delivery of cloud services. When it comes to expanding operations in Europe, company is
facing difficulties in realizing the full potential of the market because of privacy related concerns of
the clients arising from the stringent regulatory requirements based on EU General Data Protection
Regulation (EU GDPR).
To get better access to this market, the company decided to invest in privacy, so that it is able to
provide increased assurance to potential clients in the EU and this will also benefit its US operations
because privacy concerns are also on rise in the US. It will also help company leverage outsourcing
opportunities in the Healthcare sector in the US which would involve protection of sensitive medical
records of the US citizens. The company believes that privacy will also be a key differentiator in the
cloud business going forward. In short, privacy was taken up as a strategic initiative in the company
in early 2011.
Since XYZ had an internal consulting arm, it assigned the responsibility of designing and
implementing an enterprise wide privacy program to the consulting arm. The consulting arm had
very good expertise in information security consulting but had limited expertise in the privacy
domain. The project was to be driven by CIO's office, in close consultation with the Corporate
Information Security and Legal functions.
What role can training and awareness play here? (250 to 500 words)
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Q: 14
SIMULATION
[Scenario Based Questions]
FILL BLANK
MIM
The company has a well-defined and tested Information security monitoring and incident
management process in place. The process has been in place since last 10 years and has matured
significantly over a period of time. There is a Security Operations Centre (SOC) to detect security
incidents based on well-defined business rules.
The security incident management is based on ISO 27001 and defines incident types, alert levels,
roles and responsibilities, escalation matrix, among others. The consultants advised company to
realign the existing monitoring and incident management to cater to privacy requirements. The
company consultants sought help of external privacy expert in this regard.
(Note: Candidates are requested to make and state assumptions wherever appropriate to reach a
definitive conclusion)
Introduction and Background
XYZ is a major India based IT and Business Process Management (BPM) service provider listed at BSE
and NSE. It has more than 1.5 lakh employees operating in 100 offices across 30 countries. It serves
more than 500 clients across industry verticals — BFSI, Retail, Government, Healthcare, Telecom
among others in Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Afric
a. The company provides IT services including application development and maintenance, IT
Infrastructure management, consulting, among others. It also offers IT products mainly for its BFSI
customers.
The company is witnessing phenomenal growth in the BPM services over last few years including
Finance and Accounting including credit card processing, Payroll processing, Customer support, Legal
Process Outsourcing, among others and has rolled out platform based services. Most of the
company’s revenue comes from the US from the BFSI sector. In order to diversify its portfolio, the
company is looking to expand its operations in Europe. India, too has attracted company’s attention
given the phenomenal increase in domestic IT spend esp. by the government through various large
scale IT projects. The company is also very aggressive in the cloud and mobility space, with a strong
focus on delivery of cloud services. When it comes to expanding operations in Europe, company is
facing difficulties in realizing the full potential of the market because of privacy related concerns of
the clients arising from the stringent regulatory requirements based on EU General Data Protection
Regulation (EU GDPR).
To get better access to this market, the company decided to invest in privacy, so that it is able to
provide increased assurance to potential clients in the EU and this will also benefit its US operations
because privacy concerns are also on rise in the US. It will also help company leverage outsourcing
opportunities in the Healthcare sector in the US which would involve protection of sensitive medical
records of the US citizens. The company believes that privacy will also be a key differentiator in the
cloud business going forward. In short, privacy was taken up as a strategic initiative in the company
in early 2011.
Since XYZ had an internal consulting arm, it assigned the responsibility of designing and
implementing an enterprise wide privacy program to the consulting arm. The consulting arm had
very good expertise in information security consulting but had limited expertise in the privacy
domain. The project was to be driven by CIO's office, in close consultation with the Corporate
Information Security and Legal functions.
If you were the privacy expert advising the company, what steps would you suggest to realign the
existing security monitoring and incident management to address privacy requirements especially
those specific to client relationships? (250 to 500 words)
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Q: 15
What are the Nine Privacy Principles as described in DSCI Privacy Framework (DPF©)?
I) Use Limitation
II) Accountability
III) Data Quality
IV) Notice
V) Preventing Harm
VI) Choice and Consent
VII) Access and Correction
VIII) Data Minimization
IX) Openness
X) Disclosure to Third Parties
XI) Right to be Forgotten
XII) Collection limitation
XIII) Security
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