DataSurity

AI Security Assessment

Know what your AI touches, what it can do, and who answers for it.

An assessment of the AI you build and the AI you buy: which personal data trains and reaches it, how it can be attacked or misused, and whether it meets the Act and your regulator's expectations. Tested against OWASP's Top 10 lists for LLM and agentic applications, and mapped to RBI's FREE-AI framework where it applies.

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  • Indiabulls Securities
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  • MBL
  • Trident Group
  • Dhani
  • Indiabulls Asset Reconstruction
Use cases

Why organisations bring their AI to us

  • Copilots and chatbots are live on real data

    Customer and employee data now flows through prompts, uploads and connectors. You need to know what leaves, where it goes and on what terms.

  • Agents can act in your systems

    An agent with tool access can send, change and delete. Its permissions, approvals and failure modes need testing like any privileged user.

  • Your Board or regulator is asking about AI

    RBI's FREE-AI framework recommends Board-approved AI policies, customer transparency and AI incident reporting. Significant Data Fiduciaries also face algorithmic due diligence under the DPDP Rules.

  • You're buying AI inside your software

    AI features in CRM, HR and support tools often arrive with default training rights and overseas processing. Each one is a processor question under the Act.

Deliverables

A complete view of your AI, and how to secure it

Every finding comes with its reference, whether OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, the DPDP Act or your regulator, and a fix your teams can act on.

  • AI inventory

    Every model, AI feature, agent and unsanctioned tool in use, with its data, owner, provider and decision impact.

  • Lawful basis and notice findings

    For each training and inference use of personal data, the ground under the Act and whether notices cover it.

  • Data leakage findings

    What personal data reaches external AI services, through which channels, and on what terms.

  • Vendor AI terms review

    Training rights, retention, sub-processors and data residency in each AI provider's contract.

  • LLM and agent test report

    Rated findings against the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and for Agentic Applications, with proofs and fixes.

  • Agent permission map

    Each agent's tools, identities and approval gates, with over-privileged access flagged.

  • AI governance gap register

    Your policies and controls against FREE-AI, MeitY's AI governance guidelines and your Board's AI policy.

  • Algorithmic due diligence file

    For likely Significant Data Fiduciaries, documented checks that algorithms don't put Data Principals' rights at risk.

  • Board summary and roadmap

    AI risk in business terms, with quick wins and longer-term controls.

Methodology

From inventory to adversarial testing

Scope

Tested against the references that matter for AI in India

Each area carries its technical reference and, where it applies, the DPDP section or regulator expectation beside it.

AreaReferenceWhat we test
  • Prompt injection

    OWASP LLM01 · ASI01

    Direct injection, and hidden instructions in documents, web pages and emails the model reads

  • Sensitive data disclosure

    OWASP LLM02 · DPDP s.8(5)

    Personal data leaking through outputs, logs, context windows and retrieval sources

  • Excessive agency and tool misuse

    OWASP LLM03 · ASI02 · ASI03

    Agent permissions, tool scopes, delegated identities and human approval gates

  • Supply chain

    OWASP LLM04 · ASI04

    Models, plugins, tool servers and datasets, and where each came from

  • Poisoning and memory

    OWASP LLM05 · ASI06

    Training data, retrieval sources and agent memory that can be manipulated

  • Output handling

    OWASP LLM10

    Model output reaching other systems without checks

  • Adversarial techniques

    MITRE ATLAS

    Coverage of known attack techniques against AI systems

  • Lawful basis for AI

    DPDP s.4, s.6, s.7

    The ground and notice for each training and inference purpose

  • AI providers

    DPDP s.8(2), s.16

    Contract terms, training rights, retention and where data is processed

  • Algorithmic due diligence

    DPDP s.10 and Rules

    Documented checks for likely Significant Data Fiduciaries

  • Financial-sector AI

    RBI FREE-AI

    Board policy, customer transparency, explainability and incident reporting

Sector expertise

AI risk, read through your sector's rules

  • Credit and underwriting models checked for explainability and bias, as FREE-AI expects.
  • Customers told when they're dealing with AI, with a route to challenge its decisions.
  • Third-party AI inside outsourced services assessed under RBI's outsourcing expectations.
Platform

AI findings in the same risk picture

The assessment feeds DataSurity, so AI risk sits with the rest of your privacy and security posture.

Client perspectives

Trusted by leaders across industries

“We knew patient data sat in our hospital information system. We didn't know how much had spread into lab exports, scanned reports and shared drives until DataSurity's assessment showed us. The team understood hospital realities, from paediatric records to staff data, and gave us a plan we could actually run. Implementation is now moving ward by ward, with consent and rights handled in one place.”

Rakesh G

Head - Compliance, KDSG Hospitals (350-bed multispecialty hospital)

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Does the DPDP Act apply to AI?

Fully, even though it doesn't mention AI by name. Training data and prompts containing personal data are processing, so they need a lawful ground and a notice. AI providers are processors. Significant Data Fiduciaries must also carry out due diligence that their algorithms don't put people's rights at risk.

We only use AI through vendors. Is this relevant to us?

Yes, often more so. AI features inside SaaS tools can receive customer data through prompts and connectors, sometimes with training rights granted by default and processing outside India. We inventory those uses, test what actually leaves, and review the terms.

Do you test on our production systems or data?

No. Adversarial testing runs in an environment you authorise, with synthetic data. Inventory and lawful-basis work uses documents, logs and interviews. No client data is sent to any external AI service during the assessment.

Is RBI's FREE-AI framework binding on us?

FREE-AI is a committee report RBI released in August 2025, with seven principles and 26 recommendations. It isn't a binding direction on its own, but it signals what RBI expects of regulated entities: Board-approved AI policies, transparency, explainability and incident reporting. Aligning now avoids rework when formal guidance follows.

How is this different from the Cybersecurity Assessment?

The Cybersecurity Assessment tests your applications, infrastructure and controls. This one covers what's specific to AI: data flowing into models, prompt and agent attacks, provider terms and AI governance. Many organisations run both, and the findings land in one register.

How do you use AI in the assessment itself?

Automated attack libraries help us cover the OWASP categories at breadth. Senior testers design the scenarios, validate every finding by hand and judge severity. No client data is used to train anything, and none leaves the agreed test environment.

Knowledge resources

Give your AI the scrutiny your systems already get.

Tell us what you build and what you buy, and we'll scope the assessment with you.

  • DPDP Act
  • DPDP Rules
  • RBI
  • SEBI
  • IRDAI
  • CERT-In
  • PMLA
  • NIST CSF 2.0
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