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Q!Digitz                                         Vol 1            Aug 2019







                                                                         Very common business goals would be like–
      Auditing Cloud for                                               cost savings. Would there be a considerable
                                                                                              infrastructure-related
                                                                                    in
                                                                                        the
                                                                       reduction
      Banking Domain                                                   capital expenditure of the banks?
                                                                         Would  it  help  bank  by  removing  their
                                                                       dependency  on  IT  maintenance  or  hiring  a
      Authors–Anand  Patel,  Archita  Ghadi,                           highly technical person and achieve scalable
      Sonal Shah                                                       good performance?
                                                                         In-depth  assessment  of  the  driving  factors
      We  have  heard  of  penetration  of  cloud  in  many            that  led  to  the  decision  of  agreement  to
      sectors and keep on hearing of its ever-increasing               Community  Cloud  could  be  a  good  starting
      usage, its pros and cons.                                        point.

                                                                         The buy-in of the IT Steering Committee and
      But  we  rarely  hear  about  Cloud  going  hand  in             creation of the Cloud Policy Statement could
      hand with the BFSI domain. The moment we hear                    provide a basis for further work.
      of  the  BFSI  and  Cloud  combination,  our  anxiety              Has  there  been  a  formal  vendor  viability
      reaches its peak. Common questions that come to                  assessment  by  the  bank  prior  to  being  a
      mind are “Will it be safe?”, “How the hell they are              party to the community cloud?
      to  handle  Data  Privacy”,  “Will  sensitive  data  be
      secured” and so on and so forth.


      India  is  the   rst  country  in  the  world  to  have  a
      “Banking  Community  Cloud”.  IDRBT  is  a  Research
      and  Development  Institute  established  by  RBI.
      IDRBT  in  alliance  with  C-DAC  has  successfully
      achieved  this  feat.  IDRBT  has  deployed  IaaS
      services in this community cloud.


      This paper majorly talks about what should be an
      Auditor’s  focus  areas  and  challenges  in  auditing     Regulatory Compliance and Needs - Banks need to
      such  a  system.  We  will  deal  with  all  major         comply  with  multiple  national  and  international
      concerns  in  depth  in  this  paper,  beginning  from     regulations  while  handling  customer  data.  Many
      goals and taking it ahead to technical details.            banks  need  that  the   nancial  details  of  the
                                                                 customer  must  stay  within  the  geographical
      Business Goals–To begin with the Auditor needs to          boundaries of the country.
      verify  what  business  goals  have  driven  this
      decision?  And  is  the  implementation  aligned  to
      these goals.












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