By Region · Asia

GRC where every market writes its own rules

Asia has no shared framework and no regional harmonization. Every major economy sets its own security regime, Singapore's MAS, Japan's METI, India's CERT-In, Korea's ISMS-P, China's classified-protection scheme, and its own data law, several of which require the data to stay inside the country.

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The landscape

Every market, its own regime

Where Europe has one GDPR, Asia has nothing of the kind. Singapore's MAS sets technology-risk and cyber-hygiene rules for finance, and a Cybersecurity Act protects critical infrastructure. Japan works to METI's guidelines and ISMAP for government cloud. India's CERT-In imposes some of the world's tightest incident-reporting deadlines, alongside the RBI's rules for banks. South Korea's ISMS-P certification is effectively mandatory for many, and China layers a classified-protection scheme over its Cybersecurity, Data Security, and Personal Information laws. Across all of it, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 are the closest thing to a common language.

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the window Hong Kong's new critical-infrastructure law gives operators to report a serious cyber incident, among the tightest deadlines anywhere, and a sign of how demanding, and how varied, Asia's rules have become.

Data protection is proliferating just as fast, and rarely in step. Singapore, Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and more each have their own law, several updated recently for AI, and China, India, and others increasingly require personal data to be held on home soil. Meeting one market's rules tells you little about the next.

Why it is hard

Every market, from scratch

A control that satisfies Singapore's MAS does not satisfy Korea's ISMS-P or China's classified-protection scheme, and evidence built for one rarely transfers to another. On top of that, several markets require the data itself to stay in-country. Expanding across Asia can mean standing up compliance again and again, market by market, with the data pinned in place.

Managed as separate programs, that is duplicated controls, duplicated evidence, and a map that has to track a dozen moving regimes at once, and where each one's data must sit.

How SimpleRisk fits

One control library, every obligation

SimpleRisk treats Asia's patchwork the way it should be treated: as one connected set of controls, mapped once and proven to whichever regulator is asking, and deployed wherever each market requires the data to live.

  • Map once, satisfy many. Through the Secure Controls Framework, one control maps across MAS, ISMS-P, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and 250-plus frameworks, so you test once and satisfy many at the same time.
  • Add a market without starting over. Map a new country's regime against the controls you already have, instead of building a fresh program for every border.
  • Keep data in-country. Run SimpleRisk open source or on-premise inside each market, so data-localization requirements are met by design, not by exception.
  • Prove it on demand. Define tests, run audits, and hand any regulator exactly the evidence it expects, on its own timeline.
Compliance in SimpleRisk → Secure Controls Framework → On-Premise deployment →

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