Sprinto is an Indian success story at security-framework automation — SOC 2, ISO 27001 and their relatives. The DPDP Act creates a different kind of obligation.
Certification proves controls to an auditor once a year. The DPDP Act runs continuously — every consent, every request, every breach, every vendor.
Evidence collection and continuous control monitoring for security certifications — SOC 2, ISO 27001, and adjacent frameworks. If your enterprise pipeline is blocked on a certificate, that is the problem it solves.
Consent given, refused and withdrawn (§5–§6). Requests answered with identity proved first (§11–§14). Breaches intimated to the Board without delay and detailed within 72 hours (Rule 7). Processors bound and blocked when agreements lapse (§8(2)).
A certification tool's output is an auditor's report. A DPDP platform's output is a consent record, a fulfilled request, a filed intimation — artefacts about individual people, produced on the law's clock, not the audit calendar's.
The left column is what the Act and the Rules require of an Indian Data Fiduciary. The columns compare what each product operates.
| DPDP obligation | Sprinto | RuleExpert |
|---|---|---|
| Itemised consent notices (§5, Rule 3), in Indian languages | — | Notices in eight languages, versioned, with a publishing gate |
| Consent records that stand up later (§6) | — | Append-only consent log, enforced by a database constraint |
| Data principal rights — access, correction, erasure, grievance, nomination (§11–§14) | — | One queue, identity verified first, SLA clock that never pauses |
| Breach notification — Board and affected people (§8(6), Rule 7) | — | All three Rule 7 duties tracked from the moment of awareness |
| Processor accountability (§8(2)) | Vendor security posture | DPA state tracked; sharing blocked when an agreement lapses |
| Records of processing / data registry | — | Metadata-only registry, ranked by what the Act penalises |
| Security-control certification (SOC 2, ISO 27001) | Core product | — |
| Audit evidence | For certification auditors | PII-free packs with a SHA-256 manifest, per obligation |
Sprinto capabilities summarised from its public positioning as a compliance-automation platform for security frameworks. If we have anything wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
If a certificate is what unblocks your next enterprise deal, buy the certification tool. Both problems can be real at the same company.
Your buyers demand SOC 2 or ISO 27001 and your exposure is commercial. Sprinto and its peers compress months of audit preparation into weeks, and that value is real — it just is not statutory compliance with India's data protection law.
The duty you are staring at is the DPDP Act's — consent you can prove, rights you can fulfil on a deadline, a breach you could report correctly at 2am. Those obligations attach to holding Indians' personal data at all, certificate or no certificate.
Five minutes, no login — your readiness scored against the DPDP Act, and your exposure in rupees.
Sprinto's product is built around security-framework certification. Being headquartered in India does not change what the tool automates: control evidence for auditors, not consent records, rights queues or Rule 7 filings. If its coverage changes, this page will change too.
Many companies selling to enterprises do. The certificate answers your customer's procurement checklist; DPDP compliance answers Indian law. The artefacts are different and neither substitutes for the other.
A policy document is not a Rule 3 notice, and an ISMS risk register is not a consent record. The Act's duties are operational — notices in the data principal's language, requests answered on a clock, breach intimations filed. Policies help; they do not perform the duties.
The registry opens pre-filled from a sector starter pack, notices are drafted against the purposes you record, and the rights portal needs no account for the people using it. Most organisations run their first real consent and first test request within days, not months.
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