DPDP Act Compliance Automation
Automate India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act inside CATAAM — consent & notice, Data Principal rights, Rule 6 security safeguards, breach reporting to the Data Protection Board, and children’s-data controls. Cross-mapped to GDPR, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 — and the only platform that also proves your safeguards work.
Where DPDP stands today
The DPDP Act received assent in 2023; its Rules were notified on 13 November 2025, with most substantive obligations — notice & consent, Rule 6 safeguards, breach notification, retention and Data Principal rights — commencing around May 2027. That window is exactly when to stand up your program. Because DPDP overlaps heavily with GDPR, CATAAM lets you reuse the security and privacy evidence you already have and build only the genuinely DPDP-specific controls.
Every DPDP obligation, covered
CATAAM ships DPDP as a first-class framework across all ten obligation themes — with technical controls validated by native tests and policy/process controls tracked with managed evidence.
Notice & Consent
Itemized, multi-language notice; free, specific, informed consent with an auditable consent record; withdrawal as easy as giving; and Consent Manager interoperability (Sec 5–6, Rule 3–4).
Lawful Processing
A legitimate-use basis register for the closed list of "certain legitimate uses" — DPDP has no GDPR-style legitimate-interest balancing test (Sec 7).
Data Principal Rights
Access/summary, correction, completion and erasure, a published grievance-redressal mechanism with an SLA, and the right of nomination (Sec 11–14).
Data Fiduciary Obligations
Accuracy, valid processor contracts with retained liability, sub-processor disclosure, a published DPO/contact point and records of processing (Sec 8).
Security Safeguards (Rule 6)
Encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access control, access & activity logging retained ≥ 1 year, backups and recovery, and contractual flow-down to processors.
Breach Notification (Rule 7)
Plain-language notice to every affected Data Principal — no risk threshold — and an initial intimation plus detailed follow-up report to the Data Protection Board.
Children’s & Guardian Data
Verifiable parental consent for under-18s, guardian consent for persons with disability, and a hard ban on tracking, behavioural monitoring and targeted advertising to children (Sec 9).
Significant Data Fiduciary Duties
SDF classification, an India-based DPO, an independent data auditor and periodic audit, DPIAs, and algorithmic due diligence (Sec 10, Rule 12).
Retention & Erasure (Rule 8)
Erasure on purpose completion, the statutory retention timelines and advance pre-erasure notice for notified classes, and erasure propagation to processors.
Transfer & Board Cooperation
Blacklist-based cross-border transfer screening (Sec 16) and cooperation with the directions, inquiries and inspections of the Data Protection Board of India.
Prove your safeguards — don’t just claim them
Rule 6 requires “reasonable security safeguards” but prescribes no checklist — so most platforms have you tick a box. CATAAM validates each safeguard with an evidence-gated test: a control passes only on confirmed technical proof pulled from your live environment. And because CATAAM is also an attack-surface and breach-simulation platform, it goes one step further than any pure GRC tool — it attacks your own environment to prove the safeguards actually work, feeding those findings straight into your DPDP evidence.
One evidence set, cross-mapped: satisfy DPDP, GDPR, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 from the same controls, so the multi-framework burden doesn’t multiply.
How it works
Enrol and inherit the DPDP program
Enrol your organization in DPDP. CATAAM scaffolds the full control set — all 10 obligation themes — and inherits a library of data-protection policies (privacy, retention, incident response, access control) automatically.
Connect your stack, discover your data
Connect cloud, identity and MDM vendors. CATAAM discovers your real assets and maps your processing so the "reasonable security safeguards" of Rule 6 are validated against your live environment, not a questionnaire.
Validate controls with proof, not screenshots
Every technical control is validated by a native, evidence-gated test — encryption, access control, logging retention, backups. A control passes only on confirmed evidence, so what you show the Board is proof, not attestation.
Report breaches and stay audit-ready
Keep breach-notification evidence current for the Board’s clock, generate your records of processing, and hand an independent data auditor a tokenized, read-only evidence portal.
DPDP Act FAQ
- What is the DPDP Act and who must comply?
- The Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 is India’s data-protection law. Its Rules were notified on 13 November 2025, with most obligations commencing around May 2027. Any "Data Fiduciary" — an organization that determines the purpose and means of processing the digital personal data of individuals ("Data Principals") in India — must comply, whether or not it is based in India.
- How does CATAAM automate DPDP compliance?
- CATAAM ships DPDP as a first-class framework covering all 10 obligation themes — notice & consent, lawful processing, Data Principal rights, fiduciary obligations, Rule 6 security safeguards, breach notification, children’s data, Significant Data Fiduciary duties, retention/erasure and cross-border transfer. Technical controls are validated by native tests against your live environment; policy and process controls are tracked with managed evidence.
- What are the "reasonable security safeguards" under Rule 6, and how do I prove them?
- Rule 6 requires encryption, access control, logging retained for at least a year, backups and an incident-response capability. CATAAM validates each with a native, evidence-gated test — and, uniquely, runs breach & attack simulation and attack-surface monitoring so you can prove the safeguards actually work, not just that they exist on paper.
- Do I have to build DPDP from scratch if I already have GDPR or SOC 2?
- No. DPDP overlaps heavily with GDPR and shares its security requirements with SOC 2 and ISO 27001. CATAAM cross-maps a single evidence set across all of them, so the work you’ve done for one framework carries into DPDP automatically, and you only build the genuinely DPDP-specific controls — like verifiable parental consent, the Consent Manager and breach reporting to the Board.
- How does DPDP breach notification differ from GDPR?
- DPDP requires you to notify the Data Protection Board and every affected Data Principal for every breach — there is no "high risk" threshold as under GDPR — in plain language, on a fixed clock. CATAAM keeps the control evidence and incident records current so an initial intimation and the detailed follow-up report are ready when you need them.
- What is unique to DPDP that GDPR controls don’t cover?
- Verifiable parental consent with an age threshold of 18, the Consent Manager as a Board-registered intermediary, the right of nomination, a statutory ban on tracking and targeted advertising to children, blacklist-based cross-border transfer, fixed retention timelines with pre-erasure notice, and reporting to the Data Protection Board of India. CATAAM ships dedicated controls for each.
Get DPDP-ready with CATAAM
Enrol in the DPDP framework, reuse the security evidence you already have, and prove your Rule 6 safeguards actually work — transparently priced from $149/mo.