By Priya Sharma, Compliance Lead, Sirius Star Last updated 24 May 2026 Last month an IT head at a Pune fintech texted me at 7:40 on a Sunday evening. The audit committee had moved the DPDP review forward by six weeks. He had fifteen minutes before dinner and the board memo was due Monday. He…
What is Device-as-a-Service in plain language What DaaS actually bundles (and what stays with you) Real Indian DaaS pricing for a 100 to 1,000 device fleet Who DaaS is for: the 5 fleet-shape tests Who DaaS is NOT for What a sane DaaS contract looks like What DaaS replaces line by line FAQ If you…
By Priya Sharma, Compliance Lead, Sirius Star Last updated 22 May 2026 Last quarter we ran a DPDP readiness call with the COO of a 220-person Mumbai logistics SaaS. Her IT head opened with, “we have policies in place.” Thirty-five minutes later we had counted 14 obligations missing entirely and 7 more where the policy…
Pitch DaaS to your CFO with the 8-slide deck, TCO math, and risk-reversal language Indian IT heads use to get approved on the first meeting.
By Ananya Reddy, DPO Practice Manager, Sirius Star Last updated 20 May 2026 A data fiduciary under DPDP is something your company became the day it collected its first personal data field, whether anybody on the leadership team realised it or not. Last quarter we ran a DPDP scoping call with Rakesh, the COO of…
By Arjun Mehta, Device Operations Lead, Sirius Star, Last updated 19 May 2026 National insurer device management at the 2,500 device scale is not a procurement problem. It is a logistics problem dressed as a CapEx conversation. The CFO of one national insurer we work with stared at a Rs.21 crore four-year laptop refresh quote…
By Priya Sharma, Compliance Lead, Sirius Star, Last updated 18 May 2026 Last quarter we audited a 280-person Pune SaaS firm that ships analytics into both Indian fintechs and three EU logistics customers. Their CISO walked in with the line every Indian compliance lead is hearing right now: “We are GDPR-compliant, so DPDP is basically…
By Arjun Mehta, Device Operations Lead, Sirius Star, Last updated 17 May 2026 Last quarter we audited a 280-person Andheri pharma exporter whose IT manager spent his Saturday morning reimaging six laptops by hand. His MD wanted to roll out DLM with in-house IT support. The MD’s exact question was, “If we bring Sirius Star…
That is the actual job DPDP compliance for BFSI lands on, and the trade press never describes it that way. The Act looks like one regulation. In the BFSI seat it is the third overlapping circular in 18 months, all asking for similar controls written differently, and the auditor wants one operating model that closes…
By Arjun Mehta, Device Operations Lead, Sirius Star, Last updated 17 May 2026 On this page Why “DaaS sounds expensive” is a sticker-price illusion The DaaS TCO 500 devices comparison table The four hidden costs DaaS bundles into one bill Where the “we will just buy them” number quietly leaks DaaS TCO 500 devices: a…