Cyber Governance & Audit
DPDP Act Compliance
The DPDP Act and its 2025 Rules impose real obligations - consent, data-principal rights, breach notification, and extra duties for Significant Data Fiduciaries (DPO, DPIAs, audits). We assess your data processing and build a DPDP-compliant program.
Typical timeline
4–12 weeks
Engagement model
Gap → remediate → audit
How it runs
Classify → assess → close → certify
Overview
India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, and its implementing Rules establish a strict privacy regime. Organizations must implement robust mechanisms for consent management, data-principal rights, breach notifications, and extra duties for Significant Data Fiduciaries.
Our DPDP Act compliance advisory service helps you operationalize data privacy. We perform personal-data mapping, design consent workflows, establish data-principal rights response systems, draft privacy notices, and build the required governance frameworks (DPO, DPIA, audits) to protect your business from major fines.
At a glance
- Personal-data mapping and lawful-basis review
- Consent and data-principal rights workflows
- Breach notification and grievance processes
- Significant Data Fiduciary obligations (DPO, DPIA)
Coverage
What we cover
Personal Data Inventory
Mapping how personal data is collected, stored, processed, and shared across your systems.
Consent & Notice Architecture
Reviewing consent request mechanisms, opt-outs, and multi-lingual privacy notices.
Data Principal Rights
Designing processes to handle access, correction, erasure, and grievance redressal requests.
Breach Response & Notification
Developing incident response plans to meet DPDP breach notification requirements.
Significant Data Fiduciary Rules
Assessing criteria for SDF status, establishing Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA).
Third-Party Data Contracts
Auditing data processing agreements and security controls with vendors and processors.
Outcomes
What you get
Methodology
How the engagement runs
Discover
Map personal data, flows and processors.
Assess
Gap analysis against DPDP Act and Rules 2025.
Implement
Consent, rights, breach and governance processes.
Sustain
DPO support, DPIAs and periodic audits.
Deliverables
What lands in your inbox
- Data inventory & flow maps
- DPDP gap analysis
- Policies & consent workflows
- Breach-response plan
Why A5
Why teams pick us
Auditor + engineer
We close the technical gaps and prepare the paperwork - one accountable partner, not two vendors.
Regulator-ready evidence
Documentation structured the way CERT-In, RBI, SEBI and certification bodies expect.
No checkbox theatre
Controls that actually reduce risk, mapped to the standard - defensible under scrutiny.
First-time pass
Mock audits and remediation tracking so the real audit holds no surprises.
FAQ
Frequently asked
Are we a Significant Data Fiduciary?
We help you determine SDF status and, if applicable, stand up the additional obligations like a DPO, DPIAs and independent audits.
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