Breach Response & Training
The DPDP Act makes breach a reporting event with an unforgiving structure: personal data breaches must be notified to the Data Protection Board and to each affected data principal — a duty that arrives, in practice, in the worst week your organisation will have that year. Fines scale to ₹250 crore for security failures, and the difference between a managed incident and an organisational crisis is decided almost entirely before the incident: by playbooks that exist, escalation paths that are known, and people who have rehearsed the decisions they will have to make at speed.
We build the readiness that breach week reveals. Incident response playbooks are drafted to the Act's specific notification duties — what must be told, to whom, in what form and time; escalation paths run from detection through legal, communications, and board levels with named owners; tabletop exercises rehearse realistic scenarios until the playbook is muscle memory rather than shelf-ware; and workforce training is targeted by role — engineers who configure systems, marketers who handle data, support teams who are phished first — because most breaches begin with a person, and so does most prevention.
What this covers
- Incident response playbooks mapped to the Act's Board and data-principal notification duties.
- Escalation architecture: detection to decision with named owners at every level.
- Tabletop exercises rehearsing realistic breach scenarios to time.
- Role-targeted workforce training: engineering, marketing, HR, and support.
- Post-incident support: notification drafting, Board interaction, and remediation documentation.
Who needs this
Any fiduciary processing meaningful Indian personal data; security and legal teams aligning incident processes to Indian duties; and boards that understand breach response is rehearsed or it is improvised.
How we deliver
- Playbooks drafted to the Act's Board and data-principal notification duties.
- Tabletop exercises rehearsed to time with named decision owners.
- Role-targeted training across engineering, marketing, HR, and support.
Why A2 Consultants
Breach outcomes are decided by preparation made years earlier — our clients rehearse the worst week before it arrives, which is the only version of readiness that survives contact with an actual incident.
Engagement & what to expect
Readiness engagements run four to six weeks: playbooks drafted to the Act's notification duties, escalation paths defined with named owners, and the first tabletop exercise run against a realistic scenario. Training rolls out by role across the following month. The annual cadence maintains readiness: playbooks updated as rules and systems change, exercises repeated with new scenarios, and training refreshed for new joiners and new threats. Live incident support stands behind the program — notification drafting, Board interaction, and remediation documentation — the week you hope never to invoke it.
Breach outcomes are decided years before the breach — rehearse now, or improvise then, in front of a regulator.