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Security decisions get made in the boardroom. We speak that language, too.

You defend the spend, own the audit, and take the board's questions. CISO Corner collects what Payatu makes for that side of security: a show with security leaders, director columns, curated reading, and board-ready downloads.
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Reading for leaders

Written for the person accountable, not the person testing.

The leadership slice of the Payatu blog every post tagged for security leaders, pulled together here. Risk, compliance, threat landscape and the economics of security - curated to help you decide or defend, not by whatever published most recently.
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General
We didn't change who we are. We finally said it out loud.
October 5, 2026
4 min
All
Web & API
Top 5 Things To Look For When Choosing A Penetration Testing Vendor
May 17, 2022
8 min
All
Buying & Vendor Selection
General
Understand the Data Protection Bill 2022 in under 5 minutes
November 24, 2022
5 min
All
Threat Landscape
Red Team & infrastructure
Kerberosting and Golden Ticket For Red Teamers
December 7, 2022
8 min
All
Threat Landscape
Web & API
Understanding Server Side Template Injection(SSTI) in Flask/Jinja2
December 13, 2022
8 min
All
Threat Landscape
Board ready

Hand the board a document, not a promise.

Each download turns a leadership conversation into something concrete: what a red team engagement owes its sponsor, what an IPO demands of security, what to table at the next review.
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Checklists
Ebooks
DevSecOps

Privacy Control Crosswalk: ISO 27701:2025 to GDPR and DPDP

All 82 ISO/IEC 27701:2025 subclauses mapped to the GDPR article and the DPDP Act section or 2025 Rule that covers them, so your team runs one control set against two regulators instead of two.
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Web Application Security

DevSecOps Pipeline Integration Checklist: Controls Across the CI/CD Lifecycle

Security controls across the ten stages of a CI/CD pipeline, each with its objective, tools, and owner, plus a four-quarter rollout roadmap.
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Compliance / GRC

C-Suite Red Team Engagement Checklist: A Full Kill-Chain Methodology

More than 330 red team tasks across 13 stages, from signed Rules of Engagement to post-report quality assurance, so a security leader knows exactly what an adversary simulation involves.
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PDF:
38
pages
GRC & Compliance

Cybersecurity Playbook for IPO-Bound Fintech Companies in India.

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Team Payatu
PDF:
74
pages
Mobile Security

Device Setup and Barriers: The Mobile Pentesting Lab Guide.

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Amit Kumar, Vedant Wayal, Ali Jujara and Kapil Gurav
PDF:
22
pages
OT/ICS

Decoding NCIIPC's Conformity Assessment Framework.

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Abhishek Pandey
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