India DPDP Act Compliance
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act requires Data Fiduciaries to implement reasonable security safeguards. Learn how ImmuniWeb helps with web and mobile application testing.
Conformité au PDPDPA indien
What Is India's DPDP Act?
The DPDP Act is a consent-based law governing how Data Fiduciaries process the digital personal data of Data Principals. It grants individuals rights over their data, imposes obligations on Data Fiduciaries, and places enhanced duties on Significant Data Fiduciaries (SDFs), including audits and assessments.
The DPDP Rules, 2025 operationalize these obligations - prescribing reasonable security safeguards, breach-notification timelines, retention rules and children's-data protections - with several obligations, including security safeguards, phasing in over an implementation period.
See how ImmuniWeb helps you implement DPDP 'reasonable security safeguards'- securing the apps that process personal data. Request a demo· or run a free Community Edition test.
Qui doit se conformer à la loi DPDP?
The DPDP Act applies to:
- Data Fiduciaries - any entity that determines the purpose and means of processing digital personal data.
- Les organisations situées hors d’Inde qui traitent des données personnelles dans le cadre de l'offre de biens ou de services à des personnes en Inde.
- Significant Data Fiduciaries - with additional audit and assessment obligations.
Any Data Fiduciary running web and mobile applications that process personal data must secure and test them.
Key DPDP Requirements for Application Security
Application security is driven by the reasonable-security-safeguards duty:
- Section 8(5) - Reasonable security safeguards: Data Fiduciaries must implement reasonable security safeguards to prevent personal data breaches.
- Rule 6 controls:a minimum set including encryption, access controls and access logs, masking, monitoring/logging, backups, log retention and contractual safeguards with processors.
- Section 8(6) - Breach notification: intimate the Board and affected Data Principals of a breach, with a detailed report within 72 hours.
DPDP Security Requirements in Depth
Reasonable Security Safeguards (Section 8(5) / Rule 6)
Data Fiduciaries must implement and maintain reasonable security safeguards to prevent breaches. Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning of the web and mobile applications and APIs that process personal data are practical ways to verify that controls such as access control, encryption and monitoring actually hold.
Notification de violation
On becoming aware of a breach, a Data Fiduciary must notify the Board and affected Data Principals, with a detailed report within 72 hours. Reducing breach likelihood through regular application testing is the most effective way to avoid triggering this duty - and the highest penalty under the Act (up to INR 250 crore) applies to failing to implement reasonable security safeguards.
Risques courants des applications Web et mobiles à remédier
Les fuites de données personnelles commencent souvent par des applications web et mobiles vulnérables. Les risques à tester correspondent étroitement au Top 10 de l’OWASP:
- Contrôle d'accès cassé — des utilisateurs accédant à des données ou actions interdites.
- Échecs cryptographiques — chiffrement faible ou absent exposant des données sensibles.
- Injection —SQL, command or other injection via unvalidated input.
- Insecure Design — contrôles de sécurité manquants par conception, pas seulement à cause d'un bug.
- Mauvaise configuration de sécurité — configuration par défaut, incomplète ou non sécurisée.
- Composants vulnérables et obsolètes — bibliothèques et frameworks non patchés.
- Identification & Authentication Failures — weak login, session or credential handling.
- Software & Data Integrity Failures — untrusted updates, insecure CI/CD pipelines.
- Échecs de la journalisation et de la surveillance de la sécurité — attaques non détectées.
- Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) — the server tricked into making malicious requests.
For mobile apps, the OWASP Mobile Top 10 is the equivalent reference (insecure data storage, insecure communication, weak cryptography, and so on). Reliably finding these issues requires testing the running application, not just a documentation review.
How to Approach DPDP Application Security with ImmuniWeb
- Map your exposure. Inventory internet-facing apps and assets with ImmuniWeb Discovery.
- Test web applications with On-Demand (penetration testing) and Neuron (scanning).
- Test mobile applications with MobileSuite and Neuron Mobile.
- Remediate and retest with actionable, zero-false-positive reports.
- Keep testing continuously with Continuous in CI/CD and periodic re-testing.
- Surveillez les fuites grâce à la surveillance du Dark Web par Discovery pour vous préparer aux violations de données.
How ImmuniWeb Helps You Achieve DPDP Act Compliance
ImmuniWeb helps Data Fiduciaries implement and verify the reasonable security safeguards the DPDP Act requires.
| Exigence | Ce que cela nécessite | Produits ImmuniWeb |
|---|---|---|
| Reasonable security safeguards | Prevent breaches with effective technical controls. | On-Demand, Neuron, Discovery, Continuous |
| Applications et données | Sécuriser les applications web et mobiles traitant des données personnelles. | On-Demand, Neuron, MobileSuite, Neuron Mobile |
| Breach readiness | Detect exposure and leaked data; keep attack surface mapped. | Discovery (ASM / Dark Web) |
ImmuniWeb On-Demand et MobileSuite proposent des tests d’intrusion web et mobiles ; Neuron et Neuron Mobile fournissent des scans automatisés ; Continuous intègre les tests dans le cycle CI/CD ; et Discovery cartographie votre surface d’attaque externe et surveille le Dark Web pour détecter les fuites de données personnelles.
DPDP Act vs International Frameworks
Si vous respectez déjà des normes internationales, les mêmes tests ImmuniWeb les couvrent toutes:
| Framework | Perspective sécurité des applications | Comment ImmuniWeb s'aligne |
|---|---|---|
| India DPDP Act | Reasonable security safeguards (Section 8(5)) | Tests d’intrusion Web/mobile, analyse, ASM, surveillance du Dark Web |
| RGPD | Article 32 sécurité du traitement | Les mêmes tests couvrent les deux |
| Singapore PDPA | Section 24: Obligation de protection | Les mêmes tests couvrent les deux |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | Annexe A: contrôles techniques | Tests comme preuve de contrôle |
Tests d'intrusion vs scans de sécurité
Les deux sont nécessaires. Le scan automatisé (DAST) offre une couverture large et fréquente et est idéal pour les tests continus dans le CI/CD ; le penetration testing manuel trouve les vulnérabilités de logique métier et complexes que les scanners manquent et produit la profondeur attendue par les auditeurs et les régulateurs. Combinez le scanning continu avec du penetration testing manuel périodique, et re-testez après des changements significatifs.
Liste de contrôle de conformité (Sécurité des applications)
- Inventaire des applications exposées sur Internet et des actifs exposés
- Applications web testées contre le Top 10 OWASP
- Applications mobiles testées par rapport à la liste OWASP Mobile Top 10
- Reasonable security safeguards implemented and verified (Rule 6)
- Processors bound by contractual security safeguards
- Les failles identifiées sont corrigées et retestées ; les enregistrements sont conservés
- Breach-notification process aligned with the Board (72 hours)
Why DPDP Act Compliance Matters
The DPDP Act sets the highest penalty in its schedule - up to INR 250 crore - for failing to implement reasonable security safeguards, and the Data Protection Board of India is now empowered to inquire into breaches and impose penalties. Significant Data Fiduciaries face additional audit obligations.
Because web and mobile applications are a leading breach vector, demonstrably securing and testing them is one of the clearest ways to meet the reasonable-security-safeguards duty in one of the world's largest digital markets.