--- title: "Two Compliance Clocks Are Now Running: DPDP and RBI's 2026 Overhaul, Side by Side" description: Learn why supply-chain cybersecurity is becoming critical for CyFun compliance and how organizations can improve third-party risk visibility and continuous assurance. image: https://quantarra.io/hubfs/AI-Generated%20Media/Images/Diverse%20Team%20Reviewing%20DPDP%20Rules%20And%20Cybersecurity%20Directives.png --- [Skip to content](https://quantarra.io/blog/two-compliance-clocks-are-now-running-dpdp-and-rbis-2026-overhaul-side-by-side#main-content) [![logo-2-2](https://quantarra.io/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-2-2.png?width=200&height=44&name=logo-2-2.png "logo-2-2")](https://www.quantarra.io?hsLang=en) - Products - Frameworks - [ISO](https://quantarra.io/iso?hsLang=en) - [SOC 2](https://quantarra.io/soc-2?hsLang=en) - [HIPAA](https://quantarra.io/hipaa?hsLang=en) - [PCI DSS](https://quantarra.io/pci?hsLang=en) - [GDPR](https://quantarra.io/gdpr?hsLang=en) - [NIST](https://quantarra.io/nist?hsLang=en) - [CyFun](https://quantarra.io/cyfun?hsLang=en) - [NABH](https://quantarra.io/nabh?hsLang=en) - Segment - [Startups](https://quantarra.io/startup?hsLang=en) - [Small & medium](https://quantarra.io/smb?hsLang=en) - [Enterprises](https://quantarra.io/enterprise?hsLang=en) - Resources - [Blog](https://quantarra.io/blogs?hsLang=en) - Company - [About](https://quantarra.io/about-us?hsLang=en) - Select Language - [French](https://quantarra.io/fr/?hsLang=fr) - [Portuguese](https://quantarra.io/pt/?hsLang=pt) - [Spanish](https://quantarra.io/es/?hsLang=es) - [Dutch](https://quantarra.io/nl/?hsLang=nl) - [Hindi](https://quantarra.io/hi/?hsLang=hi) - [English](https://quantarra.io?hsLang=en) - [Login](https://app.quantarra.io/) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. # Two Compliance Clocks Are Now Running: DPDP and RBI's 2026 Overhaul, Side by Side by [Vivek Thomas, CEO](https://quantarra.io/blog/author/vivek-thomas-ceo) on October 1, 2026 Two unrelated regulatory overhauls are running in parallel in India right now: the phased rollout of the DPDP Rules 2025, and RBI's sweeping July 2026 [cybersecurity](https://quantarra.io/cyfun?hsLang=en) reset. They come from different regulators, cover different subject matter, and run on different clocks, but for one specific kind of company, they land on the same desk at the same time. If you're a fintech, NBFC, or any RBI-regulated entity that also processes personal data (which is nearly all of them), here are both timelines side by side. ## **DPDP's clock** | **Date** | **Milestone** | | --- | --- | | Nov 14, 2025 | DPDP Rules 2025 notified; Data Protection Board established | | Nov 13, 2026 | Consent Manager registration opens | | May 13, 2027 | Core obligations live: consent notices, data-processing restrictions, retention/erasure, breach notification, security safeguards | Penalties for non-compliance run up to **₹2.5 billion (~US$28 million) per breach**. Significant Data Fiduciaries face an additional, ongoing obligation: an annual DPIA and audit, reported to the Data Protection Board. ## **RBI's clock** RBI's clock didn't give anyone a runway. On **July 31, 2026**, it repealed roughly 627 legacy circulars, including the 2016 [Cyber Security Framework](https://quantarra.io/blog/cyfun-ai-and-government-why-cybersecurity-governance-is-entering-a-new-era?hsLang=en), and replaced them with seven entity-specific Directions, effective **immediately, with no transition period**. Unlike DPDP's staged deadlines, RBI's Directions bring ongoing operational cadences that start now and repeat indefinitely: - **Six-hour** incident reporting to the DAKSH platform - **Semi-annual** vulnerability assessments, **annual** penetration testing for critical systems - **Quarterly** closure reporting on VA/PT findings - **Semi-annual** disaster-recovery drills There's no single date to prepare for; it's a standing rhythm your compliance program now has to sustain. ## **Where the two overlap** For a bank, NBFC, or fintech that's RBI-regulated *and* processes customers' personal data, which describes almost every regulated financial entity, these aren't two separate compliance projects. Several controls genuinely serve both: - **Access logging and audit trails**: RBI's IS Audit function and DPDP's recordkeeping/breach-response obligations both depend on the same underlying evidence: who touched what data, when. - **Incident response**: RBI's six-hour DAKSH window and DPDP's breach-notification requirements both demand a response process that's fast and well-documented, even though they report to different bodies. - **Board-level governance**: RBI's IT Strategy Committee and DPDP's SDF-level accountability both push cyber and data-protection oversight up to the board rather than leaving it with a single team. Built separately, these become two parallel, duplicative programs. Built with shared evidence and cross-mapped controls, they're one program answering two regulators. **How Quantarra fits into this** This is precisely the case for cross-framework mapping: map a control once an access log, an incident-response runbook, a board reporting cadence and reuse it across both RBI's Directions and DPDP's obligations, instead of running two disconnected evidence trails that happen to ask for the same underlying proof. A single, always-current audit ledger means whichever regulator asks first, the evidence is already there. We're actively extending our framework coverage to track India-specific regulation. If you're sitting across both regimes,[get in touch](https://quantarra.io?hsLang=en), and we'll walk you through where our coverage stands today. 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