The DPDP Act, 2023 is India's first comprehensive data protection law, administered by the Data Protection Board of India, with its operational detail set out in the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025. It governs how any organization that handles the digital personal data of individuals in India collects, stores, uses, retains, and shares that data, whether the data is processed inside India or abroad in connection with offering goods or services to Indian residents.
The Act introduces named obligations for Data Fiduciaries and Data Processors, a formal Data Principal rights process, an added tier of duties for Significant Data Fiduciaries, and a 72-hour breach-notification clock to the Board. Non-compliance carries significant financial penalties, alongside reputational and operational consequences. Because privileged accounts hold the broadest reach into the databases, cloud tenants, and SaaS platforms where personal data lives, privileged access management (PAM) sits at the center of meeting these obligations in practice.

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Disclaimer: The complete implementation of the NIS2 Directive requires a variety of process, policy, people, and technology controls.The solutions mentioned above are some of the ways in which privileged access management controls help with the NIS2 Directive requirements. Coupled with other appropriate solutions, processes, people controls, and policies, ManageEngine's PAM solutions can help organizations align with the NIS2 Directive. This material is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be considered as legal advice for the NIS2 Directive compliance. ManageEngine makes no warranties, express, implied, or statutory, as to the information in this material. Please contact your legal advisor to learn how the NIS2 Directive impacts your organization and what you need to do to comply with the NIS2 Directive.