The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 marks a major shift in how organizations in India must collect, process, store, and protect personal data. With stricter consent requirements, enhanced data principal rights, and significant penalties for non-compliance (up to ₹250 crore), businesses must move fast.

In 2025, the Government introduced a fresh set of  DPDP implementation guidelines and clarity notes, tightening certain obligations around consent logging, cross-border data sharing, and breach notification timelines. These updates are aimed at ensuring uniform adoption of DPDP standards across sectors like BFSI, healthcare, telecom, SaaS, and government-linked enterprises.

To help organizations navigate this transition, Threatsys has designed a 90-day, action-oriented compliance roadmap that enables companies to become DPDP-ready in a structured, efficient, and scalable way.

Why DPDP Compliance Matters More Than Ever

Businesses across BFSI, healthcare, telecom, SaaS, e-commerce, logistics, manufacturing, and government-linked sectors rely heavily on personal data.
The DPDP Act demands:

• Lawful, clear and informed consent
• Secure data handling and processing
• Rights for Data Principals (access, correction, grievance, etc.)
• Accountability mechanisms for Data Fiduciaries
• Timely reporting of data breaches
• Strict vendor and third-party governance

Non-compliance isn’t just a legal risk , it can cause reputational damage, loss of customer trust, and operational disruptions.

90-Day DPDP Compliance Roadmap

Below is the Threatsys-recommended structured plan for achieving compliance in just three months.

Phase 1: Days (1–30) — Assessment & Foundation

The first month is all about building clarity and setting the right foundation. Threatsys begins with a DPDP Gap Assessment, where we review your existing policies, data-handling workflows, and security controls to understand your current compliance maturity. During this stage, we also map how personal data flows across your business , from collection to storage , ensuring that every source and destination is documented. This includes identifying:

• where personal data is stored
• which teams access it
• what third-party tools handle it
  

Another crucial part of this phase is determining whether your organization qualifies as a Significant Data Fiduciary (SDF). If it does, additional governance requirements apply, such as appointing a DPO or conducting DPIAs. To ensure the process runs smoothly, Threatsys helps you set up a Compliance Task Force that includes IT, security, HR, legal, and leadership stakeholders. This team becomes the central decision-making unit throughout your 90-day journey.

Phase 2: Days (31–60) — Implementation & Controls

Once the groundwork is clear, organizations move into the implementation stage. Threatsys upgrades your consent management processes, ensuring that every user interaction, whether on your website, mobile app, CRM, or marketing funnel , follows explicit and purpose-based consent rules as mandated by DPDP 2025 updates. Systems are aligned to support:

• granular consent
• automated consent logs
• easy consent withdrawal options
  

During this period, all privacy-related documents and internal policies are rewritten to reflect DPDP obligations. This includes your Privacy Policy along with internal SOPs such as data retention, breach management, employee access control, and vendor governance policies.

Security enhancements are implemented in parallel. Threatsys deploys essential technical safeguards like encryption, MFA, data masking, monitoring tools, and secure backup workflows. These controls ensure legal compliance and strengthen protection against breaches. Vendor compliance is also aligned during this phase by reviewing each vendor’s data practices and updating Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) wherever necessary.

Phase 3: Days (61–90) — Audit, Monitoring & Operationalization

The final phase focuses on making your organization fully operational and audit-ready. Threatsys sets up a structured Data Principal Rights Management system, enabling fast and compliant handling of:

• access requests
• correction/update requests
• consent withdrawal
• grievance redressal (resolved within 7 days as the Act mandates)
  

We also establish a complete Data Breach Response Framework, which includes 24×7 incident escalation processes, breach investigation workflows, and notification templates for Government and internal leadership.

To ensure your team is aligned with the new framework, Threatsys conducts awareness and security training for employees, developers, and customer-facing staff. This helps build a culture of compliance across the organization.

How Threatsys Helps You Achieve DPDP Compliance

Threatsys provides an end-to-end, business-friendly approach to help organizations meet every requirement of the DPDP Act without disrupting operations. Our solutions combine governance, technology, legal expertise, and cybersecurity controls to ensure fast, smooth, and reliable compliance.

1. DPDP Gap Assessment & Data Mapping

We start by evaluating your current data practices, policies, and systems to identify compliance gaps. Threatsys then maps all personal data flows, storage points, and third-party interactions so you get full visibility of your data ecosystem.

2. Consent & Privacy Framework Setup

Threatsys helps redesign how your organization collects, processes and stores consent. We update your privacy notices, forms, customer touchpoints, and backend workflows to align with DPDP’s explicit consent requirements.

3. Documentation & Policy Development

From Privacy Policy to Data Retention, Data Breach Response, Vendor Agreements, and Internal SOPs , Threatsys drafts all mandatory documentation needed to prove compliance during audits.

4. Security & Technical Controls Implementation

We implement the essential protection measures required by the Act , including access controls, encryption, MFA, monitoring, secure backups, and VAPT. This ensures both legal and cybersecurity standards are met.

5. Vendor & Third-Party Compliance

Threatsys reviews and validates all external partners handling your data. We help you sign compliant DPAs and set monitoring practices to reduce third-party risks.

6. Data Principal Rights & Grievance Management

We help set up systems for access requests, corrections, consent withdrawal, and grievance redressal. Threatsys ensures all response timelines comply with DPDP requirements.

7. Audit, DPIA & Readiness Review

Before final rollout, Threatsys performs a complete compliance audit, conducts DPIA (if needed), verifies controls, and prepares your organization for Government or stakeholder scrutiny.

Conclusion

The DPDP Act is not just a regulatory requirement , it’s an opportunity to modernize data governance, security posture, and customer trust.With a clear 90-day roadmap, the right team, and support from Threatsys, organizations can achieve full compliance with confidence and zero ambiguity.