DPDP Act Compliance
Audit + advisory for India's first comprehensive privacy law.
End-to-end DPDP Act 2023 readiness — data principal rights, consent management, breach notification, cross-border transfers, Significant Data Fiduciary obligations and Data Protection Officer support.
- Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023
- DPDP Rules (notified in stages)
- Sectoral overlays — RBI / SEBI / IRDAI / TRAI
- GDPR (mapped where multinational)
- ISO 27701 (PIMS) for systematic compliance
What is DPDP Act compliance?
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 governs how Indian businesses collect, process, and protect personal data — mandating consent, breach notification, and data-principal rights. Macksofy runs DPDP gap assessments, builds consent and RoPA frameworks, and prepares Significant Data Fiduciaries for audit.
DPDP Act is leverage, not paperwork.
DPDP penalties reach ₹250 crore per breach. The Data Protection Board can demand remediation, restrict cross-border transfers and shut down non-compliant data fiduciaries. Yet most Indian organisations still treat DPDP as a privacy-policy update. Macksofy's DPDP audit covers the full nine pillars — from data inventory to DPO appointment to grievance redressal.
- Any Data Fiduciary processing personal data of Indian residents
- Significant Data Fiduciaries (SDFs) — DPO mandatory
- Cross-border processors (data export to US / EU / GCC)
- Consent Managers seeking Board registration
- Healthcare, financial, edtech, e-commerce — all in scope
Aligned to the regulations that matter.
How we run a DPDP Act engagement.
Interactive walkthrough — every phase clickable, every activity documented, every artefact regulator-ready.
1 · Data inventory + RoPA
- Personal data discovery + classification
- Records of Processing Activities (RoPA)
- Data flow mapping incl. cross-border
- Significant Data Fiduciary assessment
What your DPDP Act engagement puts on the table.
- Full RoPA + data inventory
- DPDP gap analysis vs current state
- Notice + consent template pack
- Data principal rights workflow + portal spec
- Breach notification playbook (72-hour)
- DPO charter + role description (where SDF)
- Annual DPDP audit report (board-ready)
DPDP readiness + GDPR overlap
Outcome: Single playbook covered both regimes; cross-border transfer architecture validated for EU expansion
DPDP + ABDM + IRDAI overlap
Outcome: Patient health data flows mapped end-to-end; consent UX deployed across 7 hospitals
The shape of a DPDP Act engagement.
Every number below is grounded in how Macksofy actually runs the engagement — not aspirational marketing copy.
What we actually examine.
Each pillar is a distinct workstream inside the engagement — scoped, evidenced, and signed off independently before the audit pack is assembled.
- Personal-data inventory3 pts
- Lawful basis & consent3 pts
- Data-fiduciary obligations3 pts
- Significant Data Fiduciary (SDF) controls3 pts
- Data-principal rights3 pts
- Board reporting & DPB readiness3 pts
DPDP audits live or die on completeness of the personal-data inventory.
- Data-discovery across systems + SaaS
- Classification: personal, sensitive, children's data
- Processing-activity register (PAR)
Section 6 + 7 — the consent / legitimate-use distinction India auditors test hardest.
- Consent-notice design + multilingual delivery
- Consent-revocation flow validation
- Legitimate-uses register (Section 7)
Section 8 — accuracy, retention, security safeguards, breach notification.
- Reasonable-security-safeguards evidence
- Retention & deletion automation
- 72-hour breach-notification drill
If you cross the SDF threshold, the bar jumps materially — section 10.
- DPO appointment + reporting lines
- Annual DPIA + audit pack
- Algorithmic-fairness review for AI processing
Section 11–14 — access, correction, erasure, grievance.
- Rights-request intake + SLA workflow
- Grievance-redressal portal evidence
- Cross-border transfer + restricted-country posture
What you put in front of the board, the DPO, and the Data Protection Board.
- Compliance dashboard + risk register
- Penalty-exposure simulation (up to ₹250 cr)
- Mock DPB inquiry response pack
From kick-off to regulator-ready report.
The horizontal flow below shows the typical week-by-week shape of a DPDP Act engagement. Click any station for detail in the methodology section above.
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