Section 8 of the DPDP Act 2023 requires 'reasonable security safeguards' to protect personal data, without listing specific controls. In practice that means access control and MFA, encryption at rest and in transit, logging and monitoring, and an incident-response capability. This checker scores your control posture against those expectations so CISOs can see, and evidence, where they stand.
Score your controls against the DPDP Act's 'reasonable security safeguards' expectation.
Because the DPDP Act does not prescribe controls, the CISO must define a reasonable set and be able to prove it. The baseline most organisations are held to includes access control with MFA, encryption, logging/monitoring, and a tested incident response.
Scoring yourself honestly against these is the first step. The second is keeping evidence — configurations, logs, test results — so the posture is demonstrable to the Data Protection Board and to enterprise customers.
A control-by-control evidence checklist mapping DPDP safeguards to ISO 27001 and SOC 2.
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