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title: "DPDP Act (DPDPA) Compliance"
description: "How Alastor InfoSec helps businesses comply with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 — technical safeguards, breach notification, and continuous evidence."
keywords:
  - DPDP Act compliance
  - DPDPA
  - Digital Personal Data Protection Act
  - India data protection law
  - Significant Data Fiduciary
---

# DPDP Act (DPDPA) Compliance

India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 — alongside the DPDP Rules, 2025 — is the country's first comprehensive data protection law, and it applies to any organization processing the personal data of individuals in India, whether or not the organization itself is based there. Full enforcement begins May 13, 2027, and the penalties for non-compliance are severe: up to ₹250 crore for Significant Data Fiduciaries.

## What the DPDP Act Actually Requires

- **Technical and organizational safeguards** — encryption of data at rest and in transit, identity-centric access controls (RBAC, MFA, least privilege), and network security measures like segmentation and intrusion detection.
- **Purpose limitation and specific consent** — personal data can only be processed for the purpose it was collected for, with consent that's specific rather than blanket.
- **Breach notification** — significant breaches must be reported to the Data Protection Board of India and affected individuals, with the clock starting the moment you detect the breach, not when you finish investigating it.
- **Significant Data Fiduciary obligations** — appointing an India-based Data Protection Officer, an independent data auditor, and conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for high-risk processing.
- **Cross-border data transfer requirements** under Section 16, for organizations processing Indian personal data outside India.

## Where the DPDP Act Catches Most Teams Out

The breach notification clock is unforgiving, and it's the single biggest gap we see. Organizations that only test once a year typically don't discover a misconfigured storage bucket or exposed API until long after "early detection" would have been possible — by the time they find out, the notification clock has already been running for a while, without their knowledge.

## Where Alastor InfoSec Fits

[Alastor Shield](/products/alastor-shield) is built with DPDP Act (DPDPA) mapping as a first-class framework, not an afterthought bolted onto a platform designed for the US and EU — DPIA workflows, breach notification readiness, and Significant Data Fiduciary evidence collection are native, not retrofitted.

Detection speed is where [Alastor Pulse](/products/alastor-pulse) and [Dark Web Monitoring](/features/dark-web-monitoring) matter most under DPDP: continuous VAPT and dark web monitoring compress the gap between "a breach happens" and "you find out about it" from months to hours, which is exactly what a 72-hour-style regulatory clock demands.

## Who Needs This

Any business processing personal data of individuals in India — SaaS platforms, fintechs, e-commerce, healthcare, or any company with Indian users regardless of where it's headquartered — needs DPDP Act (DPDPA) readiness now, well ahead of the May 2027 enforcement deadline, not as a scramble once enforcement actually begins.

[Talk to our team](/about-us) about a DPDP Act (DPDPA) readiness assessment for your organization.