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The week's Indian regulatory alerts, upcoming RBI/SEBI/IRDAI/CERT-In/DPDP deadlines and a rotating regulator spotlight — compiled from the India Regulatory Hub.
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India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 received Presidential assent on 11 Aug 2023; the DPDP Rules 2025 were notified by MeitY on 13 Nov 2025. Consent Manager registration opens around Nov 2026 and core Data Fiduciary obligations + the Data Protection Board become operational around May 2027. Maximum penalty: ₹250 crore per breach (safeguards failure), ₹200 crore (notification failure). RiskPedia covers every fiduciary obligation — notice, consent, purpose limitation, data minimisation, storage limitation, accuracy, security safeguards, breach intimation — plus practitioner playbooks for DPDP gap assessment, DPDP-aligned privacy policy drafting, consent-management architecture, data discovery & mapping, rights fulfilment workflow, vendor / third-party oversight, cross-border data transfer compliance and breach simulation drills. Sectoral readiness varies: financial services and technology lead; healthcare, manufacturing, education and metals lag — RiskPedia ships sector-specific gap-assessment templates for all of them.
RBI's Master Direction on IT Governance, Risk, Controls and Assurance Practices (November 2023, effective April 2024) replaces the 2011 Information Security Master Direction. New / strengthened areas: IT governance committee structure, third-party risk management (TPRM) including cloud, data localisation, 6-hour incident reporting to CERT-In, annual CERT-In empanelled IS audits, business continuity drills, board-level cyber accountability. Applies to every RBI-regulated entity — scheduled commercial banks, payments banks, small finance banks, NBFCs, PPI issuers, ARCs, cooperative banks. Deep-dive at /india/rbi with full control catalogue.
SEBI's Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framework (2024) is the consolidated cyber regulation for the capital-market ecosystem — stock exchanges, depositories, brokers, mutual funds, AIFs, portfolio managers, KRAs and qualified RTAs. Mandates: SOC monitoring with defined detection & response SLAs, cyber audit, board-approved cyber strategy, TPRM, vendor on-boarding controls, cyber resilience testing, incident reporting on SEBI portal. Deep-dive at /india/sebi.
Under Section 70B of the Information Technology Act 2000, CERT-In's April 2022 Directions (effective 25 June 2022) require every Indian organisation to report 26 categories of cyber incidents to incident@cert-in.org.in within 6 hours of becoming aware. Plus 180-day log retention within India, mandatory sync with Indian NTP servers, VPN/cloud provider KYC retention for 5 years. Reportable categories include ransomware, DDoS, data breach, defacement, malicious code, scanning, unauthorised access, identity theft, fake mobile/web apps, social-engineering attacks, and IoT/OT/ICS compromises. Deep-dive at /india/cert-in with reporting SOP and 26-incident matrix.
IRDAI's Cybersecurity Guidelines (April 2026) apply to all Indian insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries. Requirements: board-approved cyber strategy, Information Security Officer (CISO equivalent), ISMS aligned to ISO 27001, periodic VAPT, incident response with regulator notification, third-party / outsourcing controls, customer-data localisation. Combines well with DPDP — life and health insurers process sensitive personal data and must implement consent + rights workflows simultaneously. Deep-dive at /india/irdai.
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The week's Indian regulatory alerts, upcoming RBI/SEBI/IRDAI/CERT-In/DPDP deadlines and a rotating regulator spotlight — compiled from the India Regulatory Hub.
The definitive AI-generated review of India's BFSI regulatory year — enforcement roundup, regulator-by-regulator recap and the outlook for the year ahead. Generated after 31 March each year.
The complete e-book guide to the DPDP Act 2023 + Rules 2025 — eight fiduciary obligations, SDF vs Processor roles, the consent framework and the enforcement timeline.
Step-by-step how-to for surviving the world's fastest breach-notification clock — the clock-aware SOP, the 26 reportable incident types and the technical mandates.
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