Does ISO 27001 or SOC 2 make us DPDP compliant?
No. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 assess whether security controls exist and operate. The DPDP Act asks a different set of questions: what personal data you hold, on what lawful basis you process it, who receives it, how long you keep it, and how individuals exercise their rights over it. Strong security is necessary for compliance and nowhere near sufficient for it.
The overlap is real but partial. Reasonable security safeguards are a DPDP obligation, so an existing certification gives you evidence for that part and for parts of vendor management.
What it does not give you is a RoPA, a lawful-basis register, a consent trail, a rights-request workflow or a breach notification path to the Data Protection Board and affected individuals.
General information about the DPDP Act, not legal advice. Obligations depend on your circumstances.
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Tarun Gupta — Chief Executive Officer. Tarun leads Exuverse, which builds ProtectComply. He works with Indian teams putting DPDP programmes into production and writes about what actually survives an audit.
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