Seqrite, the enterprise security arm of Quick Heal Technologies Limited, has welcomed the Reserve Bank of India’s June 2025 Financial Stability Report, which urges all regulated financial institutions to embrace a Zero-Trust security framework founded on the principle of “never trust, always verify.” The central bank sees Zero Trust as essential to risk-based supervision, AI-aware cyber-defence and uniform incident reporting, signalling a decisive shift away from traditional perimeter-centric models.
With escalating digital-banking adoption rendering legacy VPNs and flat networks insufficient, Seqrite’s Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) platform, developed and hosted in India, are engineered to give banks continuous identity verification, granular least-privilege access and audit-ready visibility – capabilities that map directly to the RBI’s “assume breach” stance and its call for graded monitoring of users, devices and transactions.
Seqrite ZTNA evaluates every session in real time, adapting access policies to the user’s identity, device posture, location and behaviour so that employees, third-party vendors and branch staff reach only the applications they are authorised to use. Since connectivity is established just in time, critical banking assets never sit exposed on the open network, drastically shrinking the attack surface. Detailed, tamper-proof session logs satisfy the RBI’s demand for uniform incident reporting, while seamless integration with leading identity providers such as Azure AD and Google Workspace enables rapid roll-outs without costly rip-and-replace projects.
These capabilities directly answer the priorities highlighted in RBI’s Financial Stability Report. Risk-based supervision becomes practical when dynamic policies elevate or restrict privileges according to real-time risk scores. Continuous Assessment-based Red Teaming and other AI-driven defensive drills benefit from the pervasive telemetry produced by ZTNA, giving security teams both depth and context for threat hunting. By eliminating dependence on foreign-hosted services, Seqrite’s India-based deployment also mitigates vendor lock-in and data-sovereignty concerns raised by the regulator.
A recent deployment at a mid-sized regional bank illustrates the impact. After replacing its legacy VPN with Seqrite ZTNA, the bank confined remote employees and service providers to specific core-banking applications, verified device health before every session and leveraged behavioural analytics to flag anomalies in real time. The resulting architecture reduced exposure, improved visibility and provided clear, audit-friendly records that satisfied RBI inspectors.
As India’s financial institutions expand their digital footprints, Seqrite continues to provide practical, scalable Zero Trust implementation for securing India’s digital financial infrastructure. The company remains closely aligned with the national cybersecurity priorities.
