Course Description
Why Choose ExcelR for DPDPA Training
ExcelR's DPDPA training focuses on practical implementation across core compliance areas:
- Lawful data processing practices
- Structured consent management
- Defined data retention and erasure controls
- Incident response alignment with regulatory reporting
- Clear role-based accountability
Who Should Attend
DPDPA compliance requires coordination across business, legal, HR, IT, and security functions. This training is relevant for:
- CISO, CIO, CTO
- Information Security & Risk Teams
- Data Protection Officers (DPO)
- Legal & Compliance Teams
- IT Operations & Cloud Teams
- Application Owners & Business Heads
Course Curriculum
Course Overview
DPDPA Foundations & Legal Framework
- Evolution of data protection laws (global context)
- Why data privacy matters for organizations
- Shift from IT security to data accountability
- Business and regulatory drivers for DPDP Act
- Objectives and guiding principles of the Act
- Scope and applicability
- Territorial applicability & extra-territorial reach
- Key exclusions and exemptions
- Comparison with GDPR (high-level)
- Personal Data vs Sensitive Data
- Data Principal
- Data Fiduciary & Significant Data Fiduciary
- Data Processor
- Consent Manager
- Lawful purpose and legitimate use
- Meaning and characteristics of valid consent
- Notice requirements
- Consent lifecycle (collection, withdrawal, tracking)
- Consent vs deemed consent
- Practical consent implementation challenges
- Monetary penalties and thresholds
- Non-compliance scenarios
- Accountability of organizations and individuals
- Regulatory authority and enforcement mechanisms
- Data accuracy and completeness
- Data security safeguards
- Retention and erasure requirements
- Vendor and third-party responsibilities
- Contractual and operational implications
- Right to access information
- Right to correction and erasure
- Right to grievance redressal
- DSAR handling workflow
- Common operational pitfalls
- Criteria for SDF classification
- Additional compliance obligations
- Appointment of DPO
- DPIA and compliance monitoring
- Board and leadership accountability
- What constitutes a personal data breach
- Breach identification and classification
- Incident response alignment
- Reporting timelines and obligations
- Communication with regulators and individuals
- Cross-Border Data Transfers (1 Hour)
- Data localization vs data transfer
- Government notifications and restrictions
- Risk considerations for cloud and SaaS
- Practical compliance approach
- Data governance structure
- Roles of IT, HR, Legal, Security, Business
- Policies, SOPs, and documentation
- Training and awareness programs
- Alignment with ISO 27001 / SOC / Cloud Security
- Mapping with HR processes
- Incident response and SOC integration
- Vendor risk management alignment
- Preparing for regulator queries
- Compliance documentation checklist
- Metrics, dashboards, and evidence
- Internal audits and assessments
- Tabletop exercise on data breach scenario
- Role-based workshops (CISO / HR / Legal)
- Industry-specific deep dives
- Pre- and post-training assessments
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