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COMPLIANCE SERVICES
A structured DPDP Act 2023 and DPDP Rules 2025 compliance assessment built to give exhaustive coverage of every path through which personal data flows across your business, ahead of India’s May 2027 enforcement deadline.
Hard compliance deadline — no grace period, enforcement from day one
Penalty range for privacy and data-breach violations under Section 33
Transition window since the DPDP Rules were notified in November 2025
THE MANDATE
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is India’s first comprehensive data privacy law. The DPDP Rules, 2025, notified in November 2025, operationalize it with a phased timeline culminating in full, simultaneous enforcement of every obligation on 13 May 2027.
THE CHALLENGE
Meeting the letter of the Act is straightforward to state and difficult to execute. Four challenges recur across every DPDP compliance program:
Every path through which personal data flows across every application, integration, vendor, and manual process has to be covered. A single unmapped flow is a single point of non-compliance.
Asking a customer for consent mid-transaction can easily test their patience. Consent has to be built into the experience without becoming friction that costs the business the transaction.
Personal data typically moves across many applications with high interdependency. Consent, rights, access, security, and encryption need one integrated solution, not application-by-application fixes.
Consent managers, encryption layers, and rights-management tooling all have to be weighed against cost, interoperability with the existing IT landscape, and flexibility as enforcement practice evolves.
OUR APPROACH
The client's business is decomposed into its value streams. Applications and private data flows are categorized against these value streams rather than organizational silos.
Every application used at each step of the value stream front-end, back-end, third-party, and vendor-operated is identified and mapped to the step it supports.
The personal data handled by each mapped application is identified. Because discovery is value-stream-driven rather than self-reported, coverage is exhaustive.
The complete, value-stream-anchored picture is assessed against a DPDP compliance questionnaire covering consent, notice, Data Principal rights, security safeguards, and SDF obligations. Gaps are identified stage by stage.
A single, integrated solution is recommended in response to the gaps combining consent management, Data Principal rights fulfillment, access control, security, and encryption rather than disconnected point fixes.
Consent capture, notice, and withdrawal built into the customer journey without breaking it.
Access, correction, erasure, nomination, and grievance redressal, enabled end to end.
Access controls and reasonable security safeguards mapped to each identified data flow.
Encryption applied where private data is stored, transmitted, or processed across the value stream.
SERVICE OUTPUT
The engagement produces a working set of artifacts at each stage of the framework a compliance program grounded in evidence, not a generic checklist.
