# India DPDP Act 2023 SE-005 — Information Security Governance, Training & Audit

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- Last updated: 2026-06-05
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**India DPDP Act 2023**·Control `SE-005`·high·Component: **Security**

## What this control requires

> Implement organisational security governance including: (i) approved Information Security Policy covering personal data; (ii) annual employee security awareness training (including DPDPA obligations); (iii) annual internal DPDPA compliance audit; (iv) management review of security posture. For SDFs: engage independent data auditor under Rule 12. Objective: Embed data protection governance across the organisation through policy, training, and regular audit, demonstrating systemic compliance.
> 
> — India DPDP Act 2023, Control SE-005

### In plain English

Implement organisational security governance including: (i) approved Information Security Policy covering personal data; (ii) annual employee security awareness training (including DPDPA obligations); (iii) annual internal DPDPA compliance audit; (iv) management review of security posture. In practice, this means you can prove you implement information security governance-level controls on a defined cadence.

## Why it matters

Penalties under the DPDP Act reach ₹250 crore per instance of significant non-compliance, and the Act applies extra-territorially to any entity processing personal data of individuals in India in connection with offering goods or services.

This control is rated **high**. Auditors expect a named owner, a remediation SLA, and a tooling artefact that evidences continuous operation.

## What an auditor looks for

Indian DPAs and statutory auditors will look for: documented consent capture and revocation flows, a designated Data Protection Officer (for Significant Data Fiduciaries), breach-notification workflows tied to Data Protection Board notification timelines, and Records of Processing that match the consent notice the user saw.

Within **Security**, the assessor will trace your implementation back to the catalogue reference (Control SE-005) and look for objective evidence on the latest two assessment cycles.

## How to implement

#### Policy Management

**Docs.** Keep each policy in version-controlled Markdown alongside the code that implements it; ship a signed PDF snapshot at each annual review and link the SHA into the SoA.

### Operational checklist

-   **Implement.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Review.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Scope:** information security governance, training, audit.

## Evidence to collect

-   **Policy Document.** A signed and version-controlled policy / standard / procedure document.

Signed policies, procedures, and registers document the safeguard. Focus: Information Security Governance, Training & Audit.

## Common pitfalls

-   Policies that no engineer has read; the version in Confluence drifts from the version that's actually being enforced.

## How it maps to other frameworks

Computed from shared tags, control component and key-operation subjects — handy when you are reconciling controls across an audit.

-   [**ISO/IEC 27001:2022 A.6.3** — Information security awareness, education and training](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27001-2022/a-6-3-information-security-awareness-education-and-training)
-   [**ISO/IEC 27701:2025 A.3.17** — Info security awareness & training](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-3-17-info-security-awareness-training)
-   [**NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 IR-2(3)** — Breach](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5/ir-2-3-breach)
-   [**CIS Controls v8 14.7** — Train Workforce on How to Identify and Report if Their Enterprise Assets are Missing Security Updates](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/cis-controls-v8/14-7-train-workforce-on-how-to-identify-and-report-if-their-enterprise-assets-are-missing)
-   [**GDPR Article 39** — Tasks of the data protection officer](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/gdpr/article-39-tasks-of-the-data-protection-officer)

## References

-   [Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (India) — India DPDP Act 2023](https://www.meity.gov.in/content/digital-personal-data-protection-act-2023)
-   Catalogue identifier: `Control SE-005`

Topics: governance riskawareness trainingpolicy managementsecurity training

## Related compliance guidance

- [India's DPDP Act 2023: a practical compliance guide for cloud teams](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023): Start with the full DPDP Act implementation guide — scope, roadmap, evidence and how the assessment runs.
- [GDPR compliance: a practical implementation guide for cloud-native SaaS teams](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/gdpr): Most teams extend an existing GDPR programme to India; this guide shows where the lawful bases, timelines and breach rules differ.
- [ISO/IEC 27001:2022 compliance: a practical implementation guide](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27001-2022): Rule 6's reasonable security safeguards map almost one-to-one onto ISO 27001 Annex A controls you may already operate.