For a CIO, DPDP Act 2023 compliance is about the IT estate: knowing which systems hold personal data, controlling who can access it, retaining and deleting it correctly, logging access, and governing the SaaS and vendors that touch it. Because personal data spreads across applications, databases and cloud services, the CIO is central to meeting the Act's security, retention and Data Principal-rights obligations. This guide and checker show CIOs where to start.
System inventory, access, retention, logging and vendor governance — the CIO's path to DPDP compliance.
Security safeguards, retention, deletion and the ability to honour Data Principal rights are all implemented in systems the CIO owns. That makes the CIO indispensable to DPDP compliance — and the IT estate the place where most compliance gaps hide.
The CIO's highest-leverage moves are mapping the estate, governing access, and automating retention. Get those right and the rest of the programme has something solid to build on.
A CIO checklist, a system-inventory starter, and an access-governance outline for the IT estate.
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