DPDP Act Compliance for Indian Enterprises
The DPDP Rules 2025 were notified on 14 November 2025 and the Data Protection Board of India is now established. Indian data fiduciaries and processors must move from awareness to implementation, evidence, and audit readiness in FY26.
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Assess
We map your data fiduciary and processor roles, build a data inventory, assess consent and notice mechanisms, evaluate Data Principal rights workflows, and identify gaps against DPDP Act requirements and the 2025 Rules.
Remediate
We deliver a prioritized remediation roadmap with owners and target dates. Our team supports policy development, consent and notice template creation, breach notification playbook design, processor due diligence, and technical control implementation.
Validate
We perform a closure validation audit to confirm all gaps are resolved, evidence is documented, and your organization can demonstrate compliance to the Data Protection Board, regulators, customers, and board-level stakeholders.
What Is the DPDP Act?
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) is India's comprehensive data protection law governing the processing of digital personal data. It establishes obligations for Data Fiduciaries and Data Processors around consent, notice, Data Principal rights, breach notification, grievance redressal, and child data protection.
Who Needs to Comply with the DPDP Act?
The DPDP Act applies to every organization that processes digital personal data in India or processes personal data outside India in connection with offering goods or services to individuals in India
Data Fiduciaries
Any entity that determines the purpose and means of processing digital personal data of individuals in India.
Data Processors
Entities that process personal data on behalf of a Data Fiduciary, including cloud providers, SaaS vendors, and outsourced service providers.
Significant Data Fiduciaries (SDFs)
Entities notified by the Central Government based on data volume, sensitivity, and risk, with enhanced obligations including DPO appointment and independent audits.
BFSI and Regulated Entities
Banks, NBFCs, insurers, AMCs, payment aggregators, and fintechs processing large volumes of customer financial and identity data.
SaaS and Technology Companies
Platforms handling user data, behavioral data, analytics, and cross-border data flows for Indian and international customers.
Healthcare and Pharma
Entities processing sensitive health records, patient data, clinical trial data, and insurance-linked personal data.
E-Commerce and Consumer Platforms
Marketplaces, delivery platforms, and consumer apps collecting personal data, location data, payment information, and behavioral profiles.
Entities Processing Child Data
Organizations processing personal data of children must obtain verifiable parental consent and cannot engage in tracking, behavioral monitoring, or targeted advertising directed at children.
Methodology
6 steps. Zero guesswork.
Every engagement follows this process through Lemon, our proprietary audit management platform.
Applicability and Role Mapping
We determine your DPDP obligations by mapping your entity as Data Fiduciary, Processor, or both. We assess whether Significant Data Fiduciary criteria apply and identify all digital personal data processing activities across your organization.
Data Discovery and Inventory
We build a comprehensive data inventory covering what personal data you collect, where it is stored, how it flows through systems and third parties, what processing purposes exist, and where cross-border transfers occur.
Gap Assessment
We assess your current state against every DPDP Act obligation: consent and notice mechanisms, Data Principal rights workflows, breach notification readiness, processor controls, child data handling, grievance redressal, retention and deletion, and security safeguards.
Technical Validation
Unlike advisory-only firms, Security Brigade validates privacy controls technically. Our B-52 framework and application security teams test consent flows, access controls, data exposure through APIs, insecure data handling, logging practices, deletion mechanisms, and data leakage paths.
Remediation and Implementation
We deliver a prioritized remediation roadmap and support implementation: policy and procedure packs, consent and notice templates, Data Principal rights workflows, breach notification playbooks, processor due-diligence frameworks, and data retention and deletion plans.
Closure Validation
We perform a closure validation audit confirming all identified gaps are resolved, evidence is documented, and your organization can demonstrate DPDP compliance to the Data Protection Board, sectoral regulators, enterprise customers, and board-level stakeholders.
"Security Brigade's structured approach through Lemon gave us complete visibility into the testing process. The three-layer review caught issues that our previous vendor missed entirely. Their reports were the first our developers could actually act on without a follow-up call."
The Platform
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Lemon Audit Platform
Manages the entire DPDP compliance workflow: evidence collection, control owner assignment, gap tracking, remediation tickets, closure validation, and audit trail. Your compliance and legal teams get real-time visibility without email clutter.
B-52 Technical Validation
Validates privacy-impacting technical controls that advisory firms cannot test: consent API flows, data access controls, insecure API data exposure, logging and audit trails, deletion mechanism effectiveness, and data leakage through application and infrastructure paths.
ShadowMap External Monitoring
Monitors your external exposure continuously: leaked credentials on the dark web, exposed cloud storage buckets, developer leaks on code repositories, shadow IT assets, and third-party vendor signals that could indicate data exposure risk.
Compliance-Ready
Audit-ready reporting for every framework
As a CERT-In empanelled firm, our reports are accepted by all major Indian and global regulators.
Industries
700+ clients across verticals
Every type of application architecture and business logic pattern — tested.
Deliverables
What you get
Reports for two audiences — executives who need the risk picture, and developers who need to fix the issues. With code-level guidance, not vague advice.
DPDP Compliance Assessment Report
Comprehensive assessment of your organization's compliance posture against every DPDP Act obligation with evidence references and gap analysis.
Data Fiduciary and Processor Role Mapping
Document mapping your entity roles, processing activities, and obligations under the DPDP Act.
Data Inventory and Processing Register
Complete inventory of personal data collected, stored, processed, and shared across systems, applications, and third parties.
Gap Assessment with Risk Ratings
Prioritized gap report with risk ratings, evidence status, and remediation recommendations for each identified non-compliance.
Policy and Procedure Pack
Privacy policy, data protection policy, consent management procedures, breach notification procedures, and data retention schedules.
Consent and Notice Templates
Ready-to-implement consent forms, privacy notices, and consent withdrawal workflows aligned to DPDP Act requirements.
Breach Notification Playbook
Step-by-step playbook for personal data breach notification to the Data Protection Board and affected Data Principals.
Data Principal Rights Workflow Documentation
Documented workflows for fulfilling access, correction, erasure, and nomination requests with SLA targets and escalation paths.
Processor and Vendor Due-Diligence Framework
Assessment framework and questionnaire for evaluating data processors and vendors against DPDP obligations.
Remediation Roadmap
Prioritized remediation plan with owners, target dates, effort estimates, and dependencies for each identified gap.
Board and Management Readiness Presentation
Executive presentation summarizing DPDP compliance posture, key risks, remediation progress, and investment requirements for board and management review.
Closure Validation Report
Post-remediation validation confirming all gaps are closed, evidence is documented, and compliance readiness is demonstrated.
Continuous Compliance with ShadowMap
The audit gives you a snapshot. ShadowMap gives you the always-on view.
An annual audit proves your posture at a single point in time. Between audits, attack surfaces drift, credentials leak, sub-domains get added, vendors get breached. ShadowMap watches the boundary continuously so the next audit isn't a surprise.
Dark Web Intelligence
9.7B+ breach records indexed; monitors Telegram, paste sites, criminal forums, and ransomware leak sites for credentials, leaked data, and threat actor mentions.
Find leaked data before regulators do.
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Explore on ShadowMapWhat is the DPDP Act 2023 and when does it come into effect?
Who qualifies as a Data Fiduciary under the DPDP Act?
What are the penalties for DPDP Act non-compliance?
What is a Significant Data Fiduciary and what additional obligations apply?
How is the DPDP Act different from GDPR?
Does the DPDP Act apply to data processed outside India?
What are Data Principal rights under the DPDP Act?
How long does a DPDP compliance assessment take?
Can Security Brigade help with both DPDP and GDPR compliance simultaneously?
What are the DPDP Act requirements for child data protection?
Start Your DPDP Compliance Journey Before Enforcement Catches Up
The DPDP Rules are notified, the Data Protection Board is operational, and Indian enterprises are expected to demonstrate compliance readiness. Do not wait for the first enforcement action to make headlines.
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