INDUSTRIES
Compliance looks different depending on the data you hold
The DPDP Act applies broadly, but what it demands in practice depends heavily on your sector — the type of data, how long you keep it, and who else regulates you. Here's how that plays out across the sectors we work with.
Banking & Financial Services
Banks and NBFCs handle some of the most sensitive personal and financial data in the economy, under both DPDP and existing RBI expectations. The challenge is usually depth, not awareness — legacy systems, multiple data touchpoints, and strict expectations around breach reporting and vendor oversight.
Insurance
Insurers collect and retain personal, financial, and often health-related data over long policy lifecycles — sometimes decades. That creates a data retention and lifecycle governance challenge that most other sectors don't face at the same scale.
Healthcare
Hospitals and clinics handle patient data that is both highly sensitive and operationally critical — accessible to many staff, often across paper and digital systems at once. Access control and breach readiness carry outsized importance here.
Educational Institutions
Schools, colleges, and universities manage data on students, parents, and staff across admissions, academics, hostel, and payment systems — often in loosely connected tools with limited central oversight. Handling minors' data also brings additional consent considerations under DPDP.
HR Departments
Employee data — from recruitment through exit — touches nearly every department and often lives across HRMS platforms, spreadsheets, and email. HR functions typically need DPDP compliance addressed as a distinct, internal-facing workstream alongside customer-facing efforts.
SMEs
Smaller organisations often carry the same fundamental obligations as larger ones, but with far less dedicated compliance capacity. The priority is identifying the highest-impact, most feasible steps first — not attempting a full enterprise programme on a small-business budget.
Large Corporates
Multiple business units, subsidiaries, and vendor relationships mean data governance needs central policy with local execution — and visibility across an organisation that no single team may fully have today.