GDPR
Art. 37–39
Empowering organizations to build resilient data protection ecosystems with our expert DPO-as-a-Service.
A DPO is your privacy guardian for your organisation or business, the key point of contact for all data protection matters for lawful processing of personal data of the data subjects/data principals that consist of consumers, customers, employees, students etc.
Under GDPR (Articles 37–39) and now the DPDP Act, 2023, Section 10(2)(a), appointing a Data Protection Officer isn't just best practice, it's often a legal requirement.
of sensitive personal data (like health, biometrics, race, or religion).
through profiling, tracking, or behavior analysis as part of your core operations.
or government body involved in data processing.
especially in the EU or with digital personal data from Indian users.
Uphold compliance with GDPR, DPDP Act, and other applicable data protection regulations.
Promote awareness and best practices across all levels of the organization.
Develop and share data protection policies with employees and stakeholders.
Act as the point of contact for Data Protection Authorities during inquiries, audits, or inspections.
Handle access, correction, consent withdrawal, and other personal data queries with transparency and efficiency.
Proactively identify and report potential data protection risks to senior leadership for mitigation.
Avoid the high costs of a full-time DPO, including salary and training.
Access a team of experienced professionals with up-to-date knowledge of data protection laws (e.g., GDPR, PDPA).
Ensure impartiality, avoiding conflicts of interest common with internal staff.
Flexible support tailored to your organization's size and needs.
From audits to data breach response, we cover all DPO responsibilities.
Stay compliant and focus on your core business while we handle data protection.
Designed to help you meet data protection compliance in your jurisdiction. Our offerings include:
In addition to the core offerings, we support you with a comprehensive compliance framework, including:
We help ensure alignment with key data processing principles such as purpose limitation, data minimization, and accuracy of personal data.
Identify appropriate legal grounds for processing personal data under applicable laws like the GDPR, DPDP Act, CCPA, APPI, and others.
Evaluate and map applicable sectoral and jurisdiction-specific privacy obligations to your operations.
Advise on international data transfer mechanisms including Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs), adequacy decisions, and derogations, based on your organizational needs and risk appetite.
Draft and deploy privacy policies, data handling procedures, and governance frameworks aligned with global best practices.
Set up scalable mechanisms for handling individual rights requests, including access and information requests, consent withdrawal, rectification and erasure, and objections and other rights under global privacy laws.
At Data Secure, you're backed by a team of seasoned privacy professionals holding internationally recognized certifications in data protection, security, and compliance.
In the event of a data breach, a DPOaaS provider will lead the incident response, including assessing the breach's scope and impact; advise on legal obligations, such as notifying supervisory authorities and affected data subjects; work with the organization to mitigate risks and prevent future incidents; and document the breach and response for compliance records.
Yes, we are equipped to handle compliance with other data protection laws, such as the UK GDPR, USA State Specific Laws, EU GDPR, South Africa's POPIA, Brazil's LGPD, Canada's PIPEDA, India's DPDP Act 2023, Vietnam, Australia and many more depending on the organization's geographic scope and requirements. We can also assist with the EU AI Act, EU Digital Services Act, and EU Digital Marketing Act.
At DataSecure, we deliver more than just compliance checklists, we partner with organizations to operationalize privacy, manage risk, and enable business growth through responsible data practices.
Our multidisciplinary team brings together legal, technical, and policy expertise across sectors, under laws like the DPDP Act, GDPR, CCPA, and APPI.
Every organization is different and so are its privacy needs. Our services are designed to scale with you, startup or enterprise.
From HR and Legal to IT and Marketing, we provide role-based guidance and training that makes privacy relevant for every team.
We embed privacy in daily operations, not just on paper — interactive workshops, process design, and tools that are adopted and maintained.
Our frameworks align with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, ISO 27001, and the GDPR — compliant today, resilient tomorrow.
Healthcare, finance, education, technology and manufacturing organisations rely on DataSecure to lead their privacy journeys.
Supporting the assessment, design, and implementation of its privacy framework as the organisation scales its smart energy platform — covering EU GDPR, the DPDP Act 2023, and the DPDP Rules 2025.
Assessing how personal data is collected, used, stored, shared, and retained across operations, systems, and third parties — including AI and automated technology governance requirements.
Strengthening privacy governance and documentation, and supporting compliance with GDPR, DPDP Act, HIPAA and other relevant data protection obligations.
Building a comprehensive privacy compliance program with particular emphasis on India's DPDP Act, alongside international cross-border transfer mechanisms and safeguards.
Outsourced DPO supporting global compliance for a large consumer-facing user base — GDPR compliance, data subject rights, privacy documentation, and EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) certification.
A Data Protection Officer is not a courtesy title. Under both the regulations our clients most frequently face, the law itself tells organisations exactly when a DPO stops being optional — and regulators treat the absence of one as an aggravating factor, not a neutral omission.
Appointment is mandatory wherever an organisation is a public authority or body; carries out core activities requiring regular and systematic monitoring of individuals at scale; or carries out large-scale processing of special-category data (health, biometric, genetic, religious, political) or criminal-conviction data.
A Significant Data Fiduciary (SDF), once notified as such by the Central Government, must appoint a Data Protection Officer who is based in India and reports directly to the Board of Directors or an equivalent governing body.
Several EU member states — Germany's BDSG among them — extend the obligation further still, for example triggering a mandatory DPO once as few as twenty people are regularly engaged in automated personal data processing, regardless of sector.
The global average cost of a data breach stood at USD 4.44 million in 2025, and USD 10.22 million in the United States — an all-time high, driven in part by regulatory fines and slower detection.
Healthcare organisations absorbed the highest breach costs of any sector for the fourteenth consecutive year, directly relevant to clinical research, life sciences, and digital health operators.
Breaches that take longer than 200 days to contain cost organisations USD 1.14 million more, on average, than those contained faster and a functioning DPO office is precisely what shortens that timeline through pre-built incident and breach-notification protocols.
EU/EEA supervisory authorities have issued more than EUR 6.4 billion in cumulative GDPR fines since May 2018 — failure to designate a required DPO is a listed Tier 1 violation under Article 83(4).
Our practice extends well beyond these two frameworks — spanning HIPAA, the UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and the sector- and country-specific regimes each client's operations touch — but the scale of these figures alone makes the underlying point plainly: the cost of a properly resourced DPO function is a rounding error next to the cost of doing without one.
Data Secure's DPO-as-a-Service model gives organisations the statutory function the law requires an independent, appropriately qualified officer, resourced and positioned exactly as Articles 37–39 GDPR and Section 10 of the DPDP Act demand without the 12–18 month hiring cycle, single-person key-man risk, or seven-figure fully-loaded cost of building that function internally. In practice, that means pre-built breach notification protocols aligned to the GDPR's 72-hour reporting clock, documented records of processing, data protection impact assessments, cross-border transfer mechanisms, and a standing point of contact for supervisory authorities and data principals alike, the same infrastructure that, engagement after engagement, has moved our clients from reactive exposure to defensible, audit-ready governance.
We combine legal, technical, and governance expertise to help you build a scalable, compliant, and trustworthy privacy program.