Compliance and regulation – DPDP Act, audit checklists, data disposal, IRDAI
Your auditor is not going to ask whether you have a policy on file. They are going to ask for the evidence. Here is the ten-point readiness check we run before an audit date lands, and the one gap that catches nearly everyone.
Consent management under DPDP stops being a cookie banner in November 2026. A Pune D2C brand’s 6-week consent rebuild, what changed, and what it cost.
A day-in-the-life DPDP readiness assessment at a Bengaluru NBFC. 4-hour scan, 12-page report, the HR gap nobody talks about.
Day 38 of a 56-day ARCON PAM rollout at a 380-seat Chennai BPO under a US client vendor audit. Session recording, JIT, ARCON vs CyberArk honest call, and the Day 39 to Day 56 closure plan.
How to stop data leaks over email in India, with the four controls Indian SMBs actually need, what email DLP costs, and the DPDP penalty you are avoiding.
By Priya Sharma, Compliance Lead, Sirius Star Last verified 01 June 2026 The short version The headline cap is Rs.250 crore. The Data Protection Board does not start there for a 30-person company. It starts with proportionality. For an Indian SMB the realistic first-strike exposure sits in the Rs.50 lakh to Rs.5 crore band, driven…
A DPDP audit India walkthrough checks 11 evidence domains and 9 documents. This playbook shows the 14-day prep drill an Indian mid-market CIO can run before a BFSI vendor risk audit lands with 7 working days notice.
By Priya Sharma, Compliance Lead, Sirius Star Last updated 27 May 2026 Two Sundays ago an IT-plus-admin head at a 120-person Mumbai garment exporter sent me a WhatsApp at 11:10 in the morning. His Company Secretary had emailed a Rs.84,000-plus-GST “DPDP onboarding kit”. The AGM was 25 working days away, with a 20-minute slot reserved…
Five real HR data theft scenarios Indian companies miss, the DPDP Act 2023 angle, what each costs, and a 14-day fix HR and IT can run together.
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…
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