# Digital Personal Data Protection Act IR-001 — Personal Data Breach - DPB Notification

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- Last updated: 2026-05-30
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Digital Personal Data Protection Act · Control IR-001 · Priority: critical · Component: Incident Response

### What this control covers

Implement a Personal Data Breach Response procedure including: (i) breach detection and classification (personal data breach vs. non-personal breach); (ii) DPB notification in prescribed form under Rule 7 (immediately upon discovery); (iii) 72-hour detailed breach report to DPB; (iv) breach register with detection timestamp, notification timestamp, and root cause; (v) annual breach response simulation. Objective: Ensure timely and compliant notification to the Data Protection Board upon any personal data breach, minimising penalty exposure and demonstrating proactive compliance.

### Why it matters

How quickly and methodically you contain an incident determines the regulatory consequence — most fines are not for the breach itself but for the slow or absent response.

### How to implement

#### AWS

Wire **GuardDuty**, **Security Hub** and **Macie** findings into your ticketing/SIEM via EventBridge. Maintain documented playbooks for IAM-key compromise, EC2 instance compromise, S3 data exposure, and run **quarterly tabletop exercises**.

#### Azure

Use **Defender for Cloud** + **Microsoft Sentinel** with playbooks (Logic Apps) for automated containment — disable user, isolate VM (NSG), revoke session tokens. Keep an on-call rotation in Teams with PagerDuty.

#### GCP

Use **Cloud KMS** with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for BigQuery, GCS, and Compute. **Sensitive Data Protection** (DLP API) inspects/de-identifies PII at scale.

#### Google Workspace

Enable **client-side encryption** for Drive/Docs and turn on **Drive Labels + DLP** rules to prevent external sharing of regulated data classes.

#### GitHub

Subscribe to **secret-scanning** alerts and **Dependabot** security advisories; require triage SLAs by severity. For exposed secrets, rotate at the cloud provider FIRST then revoke at GitHub — order matters.

### Evidence to collect

-   `ticketing_workflow` — See the iCompaas Evidence library for the canonical source for this evidence type.
-   `policy_document` — A signed, version-controlled policy stating leadership intent and the named owner.

Signed policies, procedures, and registers document the safeguard. Service management or grievance ticketing records prove timely handling. Focus: Personal Data Breach - DPB Notification.

### Quick checklist

-   Implement — Personal Data Breach / Dpb Notification
-   Ensure — Personal Data Breach / Dpb Notification

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## Related compliance guidance

- [India's DPDP Act 2023: a practical compliance guide for cloud teams](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023): The DPDP Act and 2025 Rules explained as an implementation plan, including what is in force today.
- [GDPR compliance: a practical implementation guide for cloud-native SaaS teams](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/gdpr): A GDPR programme covers most DPDP obligations; the guide shows the overlap and the India-specific gaps.