They loved your pitch. Now they want to open the hood. You’ve secured that golden first “yes” from investors. But before the money hits your bank account, they’ll do something else. Something far more intrusive than a pitch meeting: due diligence. And if you’re not…
Environmental, Social, and Governance / ESG Compliance isn’t just a global trend—it’s now a competitive mandate for Indian businesses aiming to attract investors, meet regulatory standards, and future-proof operations. But how do you know which ESG factors actually impact your business? That’s where ESG Materiality…
Building a financially stable business is essential for long-term success and resilience in an ever-changing market. Financial stability not only helps organizations weather economic downturns but also provides the foundation for growth and innovation. In this article, we will explore key strategies to achieve financial…
I still remember that Monday morning. An email landed in my inbox from a major banking client’s infosec team: “We’re initiating a vendor cybersecurity compliance review. Please submit your latest audit report.” I froze. We had decent firewall setups and some cloud security hygiene—but no…
It started like any other Monday. I was sipping my third cup of coffee when one of our junior devs ran in, pale-faced: “Sir, our client dashboard has been hacked—admin controls were exposed.” I thought he was joking. He wasn’t. That single breach compromised sensitive…
It was a sleepy Tuesday afternoon when my phone rang. “Your homepage is redirecting to a suspicious site,” a long-time client messaged. At first, I thought it was a joke. It wasn’t. Our web portal—handling sensitive user data—was hacked. Malware was injected. SEO spam links…
In March 2023, I was sitting in a pitch meeting with a PSU client in Delhi. Everything was going smoothly until they asked a simple question: “Do you have a valid CERT-In Safe to Host audit report?” My face went blank. We had everything else—strong…
It happened on a Sunday. Our tech team was off. I got an SMS from AWS: “Unusual login detected from Kazakhstan.” I thought it was a false positive. An hour later, our dev staging server was wiped clean. We later found out a port was…
I’ll never forget the gut punch of that morning. It was August last year when our servers suddenly went silent. Emails bounced, our CRM crashed, and one of our biggest clients messaged: “Your site’s down. Is everything okay?” It wasn’t. We had suffered a ransomware…
Back in March 2025, we began assisting a Plastic Packaging Supplier based in Indore who’d been manually filing their EPR returns. Despite best efforts, their Q4 filing from last year had minor inconsistencies in SKU-level waste declarations. As a result, the Central Pollution Control Board…
Back in January 2025, a Retail Chain based in Mumbai came to us with a silent crisis brewing. They had signed up with three different PROs (Producer Responsibility Organizations) over the past year for their plastic waste obligations—but none were delivering consistent documentation. When CPCB…
Back in January 2025, we onboarded a Plastic Packaging Unit based in Surat who thought their internal accountant was managing the EPR filings just fine. Spoiler: he wasn’t. Three quarters of unfiled or wrongly filed returns had quietly piled up. One fine Monday morning, they…