GDPR and DPDP Act Compliance for Indian Enterprises
Go beyond policy documentation. Security Brigade delivers technical data protection compliance — mapping data flows from code and infrastructure, testing controls, and achieving dual GDPR and DPDP Act readiness for India-to-EU operations.
Trusted by India's leading enterprises
Assess
We map your data flows from code and infrastructure, identify personal data processing activities, evaluate technical controls, and benchmark your current posture against GDPR and DPDP Act requirements. This includes automated discovery of data stores, cross-border transfer mechanisms, and consent management implementations.
Remediate
Based on the gap analysis, we provide a prioritized remediation roadmap with specific technical guidance. Our team works alongside your developers and infrastructure teams to implement privacy-by-design controls, data minimization mechanisms, encryption standards, and access controls that satisfy both GDPR and DPDP Act mandates.
Certify
After remediation, we conduct validation testing to confirm all controls meet regulatory requirements. You receive a formal compliance assessment report, a compliance readiness certificate, and ongoing support for maintaining compliance during regulatory changes, audits, or Data Protection Board inquiries.
What Are GDPR and the DPDP Act?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the European Union's data protection law governing how organizations collect, process, and store personal data of EU residents. India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (DPDP Act) is India's equivalent framework, establishing obligations for data fiduciaries processing Indian citizens' personal data. Organizations operating across India and Europe must comply with both regulations simultaneously.
Who Needs GDPR and DPDP Act Compliance?
Both regulations have broad applicability — if you process personal data, you likely fall within scope.
BFSI and Financial Services
Banks, NBFCs, insurance companies, and fintech firms processing customer KYC, transaction, and financial data under both Indian and international data protection obligations.
SaaS and Technology Companies
Software platforms with users or customers in the EU and India, especially those processing behavioral data, user analytics, or automated decision-making outputs.
Healthcare and Pharma
Organizations handling patient records, clinical trial data, telemedicine information, and health data subject to heightened sensitivity classifications under both GDPR and DPDP.
E-Commerce and Retail
Online and omnichannel retailers collecting customer data, payment information, delivery addresses, and behavioral tracking data across Indian and European markets.
Manufacturing and Industrial
Enterprises with employee data across jurisdictions, vendor management systems, customer portals, and IoT devices collecting personal or operational data.
Companies with India-EU Data Flows
Any organization transferring personal data between India and the EU, including IT services companies, BPOs, shared service centers, and global delivery organizations.
AI and Automated Decision-Making
Organizations using AI systems for profiling, scoring, or automated decisions affecting individuals. Both GDPR Article 22 and DPDP Act provisions require transparency and safeguards.
Significant Data Fiduciaries
Organizations designated as Significant Data Fiduciaries under the DPDP Act face additional obligations including mandatory Data Protection Impact Assessments and periodic audits.
Methodology
6 stages. Audit-ready results.
Every engagement follows this process through Lemon, our proprietary audit management platform.
Most compliance consultants review policies and generate checklists. Security Brigade takes a fundamentally different approach — we assess technical controls at the code and infrastructure level, map actual data flows through your systems, and validate that privacy mechanisms work as intended. Our India-specific methodology addresses the unique requirements of the DPDP Act 2023 while maintaining alignment with GDPR for organizations operating across both jurisdictions.
Discovery and Data Mapping
We begin with comprehensive discovery of your data ecosystem. This includes automated scanning of databases, APIs, cloud storage, and application code to identify where personal data resides, how it flows between systems, and where it crosses geographical boundaries. We map consent collection mechanisms, data retention implementations, and access control architectures. This is not a questionnaire-based exercise — we examine actual infrastructure and codebase.
Gap Assessment Against Both Frameworks
Using the data map as foundation, we perform a detailed gap analysis against GDPR articles and DPDP Act provisions simultaneously. We evaluate technical safeguards including encryption at rest and in transit, pseudonymization implementations, access controls, data minimization practices, and automated decision-making transparency. Each gap is categorized by regulatory criticality, business impact, and remediation complexity.
Technical Control Testing
We go beyond documentation review to test whether your data protection controls actually work. This includes penetration testing of privacy mechanisms, testing consent withdrawal flows end-to-end, validating data deletion and anonymization routines, verifying cross-border transfer safeguards, and testing access controls around personal data stores. Our L1/L2/L3 review process ensures thoroughness.
AI System Compliance Assessment
For organizations using AI and automated decision-making, we evaluate compliance with GDPR Article 22 requirements and DPDP Act provisions on automated processing. This covers transparency of AI logic, human-in-the-loop mechanisms, bias assessment, data minimization in training datasets, and documentation of automated decision-making impacts on data subjects.
Remediation Roadmap and Implementation Support
We deliver a prioritized remediation roadmap with specific technical guidance for your development and infrastructure teams. Recommendations include code-level fixes, configuration changes, architecture modifications, and policy updates. Our team provides implementation support and walkthrough sessions to ensure your teams can execute remediation efficiently.
Validation and Compliance Certification
After remediation, we conduct validation testing to confirm all controls meet regulatory requirements. You receive a formal compliance assessment report documenting your posture against both GDPR and DPDP Act, a compliance readiness certificate, and a roadmap for maintaining ongoing compliance as regulations evolve.
"We swap auditors every two years as policy. Security Brigade is the only firm we've kept continuously since 2016. The difference is Lemon — every engagement follows the same methodology, every finding gets three-layer review, and our RBI auditors have never questioned a report. That kind of consistency across 300+ annual assessments is rare."
The Platform
Powered by Lemon
Most firms rely on individual tester skill. We built a platform that makes quality structural — informed by 6,700+ previous assessments.
Automated Data Flow Discovery
Lemon's fingerprinting capabilities identify personal data stores, processing endpoints, and cross-border transfer paths across your application and infrastructure stack automatically.
Structured Compliance Testing Workflows
Testing tasks for GDPR and DPDP Act requirements are pre-defined and assigned systematically, ensuring no regulatory requirement is missed regardless of which auditors are assigned.
Real-Time Client Dashboard
Your team gets live visibility into assessment progress, findings as they are identified, remediation status, and blockers — across all stakeholders including compliance, security, and development teams.
Compliance-Ready
Audit-ready reporting for every framework
As a CERT-In empanelled firm, our reports are accepted by Indian regulators and meet global framework requirements.
Industries
700+ clients across verticals
Every type of application architecture and business logic pattern — tested.
Quality Assurance
Multi-Layer Expert Review for Compliance Accuracy
Every compliance finding undergoes three levels of validation before reaching your team.
Compliance assessment quality directly impacts business decisions and regulatory outcomes. A missed gap can lead to penalties, while a false finding wastes remediation resources. Security Brigade's structured L1/L2/L3 review process ensures every compliance finding is thoroughly validated, every gap is accurately assessed, and every recommendation is actionable and proportionate to the actual risk.
L1: Compliance Auditor Assessment
L1 auditors perform the detailed assessment — mapping data flows, testing technical controls, documenting gaps against GDPR and DPDP Act requirements, and producing proof-of-evidence for every finding.
L2: Senior Consultant Review
L2 senior consultants review assessment coverage, validate that all regulatory requirements have been evaluated, identify gaps in testing methodology, and ensure the compliance mapping is complete and accurate.
L3: Security Architect Validation
L3 security architects perform final validation — confirming impact assessments, verifying remediation recommendations are practical and proportionate, and ensuring the compliance report meets the quality standards required for regulatory and board-level consumption.
Deliverables
What you get
Reports for two audiences — executives who need the risk picture, and developers who need to fix the issues. With code-level guidance, not vague advice.
Comprehensive Gap Analysis Report
Detailed mapping of your current posture against every applicable GDPR article and DPDP Act provision, with severity ratings and specific evidence for each finding.
Data Flow and Processing Map
Visual documentation of all personal data flows across your systems, applications, cloud infrastructure, and third-party integrations, including cross-border transfer paths.
Technical Security Assessment Report
Detailed findings from penetration testing of privacy controls, with step-by-step proof-of-concepts, technology-specific remediation code examples, and CVSS severity ratings.
Prioritized Remediation Roadmap
Risk-prioritized action plan with specific technical fixes, policy updates, and process changes needed to close compliance gaps, organized by regulatory criticality and implementation complexity.
Executive Summary and Board Deck
Non-technical overview of compliance posture, key risks, and remediation progress designed for board-level and leadership team consumption.
Compliance Readiness Certificate
Formal certificate confirming your organization has undergone structured GDPR and DPDP Act compliance assessment and met the validated requirements, issued after successful remediation.
AI System Compliance Report
For organizations using automated decision-making, a dedicated assessment of AI system compliance covering transparency, explainability, and safeguard adequacy.
Ongoing Compliance Support
Post-engagement support including retesting of remediated controls, regulatory update advisories, and assistance during Data Protection Board inquiries or GDPR supervisory authority audits.
What is the difference between GDPR and the DPDP Act 2023?
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What about compliance for AI systems and automated decision-making?
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