2025: The Perfect Compliance Storm
In the first half of 2024, India witnessed a 70% surge in data breaches with over 700 million records exposed – both figures were the highest for any country in the APAC region. To counteract this astonishing rise in cyberattacks, the Indian government has responded by introducing a variety of landmark regulations that have already been enforced or expected to be enforced later this year.
Internal Teams Are Losing Ground to Compliance Complexity
India’s compliance environment is evolving faster than most internal teams can keep up with — and the cracks are beginning to show. Key operational challenges continue to undermine enterprise readiness:
- Severe Skills Shortage: A 2024 NASSCOM report highlights a cybersecurity talent gap of over 2.5 lakh professionals. When it comes to compliance, the situation is worse — less than 6% of IT staff are trained in privacy mandates like DPDPA and GDPR.
- Manual Processes Still the Norm: Despite the growing complexity of compliance parameters, 72% of Indian enterprises continue to rely on manual processes — making them more vulnerable to oversight, delays, and reporting failures.
- Fragmented Accountability: Compliance responsibilities often remain scattered across Legal, IT, InfoSec, and Operations — without a unified governance model. According to a 2023 Deloitte India Survey, 48% of organizations lack cross-functional alignment in identifying, managing, and escalating compliance risks.
- Visibility Gaps Across Environments: As workloads move across cloud and hybrid environments, tracking sensitive data flows becomes increasingly difficult. A 2024 DSCI report shows that 54% of Indian enterprises cannot confidently pinpoint where all sensitive data resides — a serious risk under DPDPA.
- Audit Readiness is Lacking: A 2024 EY India study found that 43% of CISOs admit they wouldn’t pass a DPDPA audit if it were conducted today — citing missing documentation, insufficient logs, and lack of evidentiary trails.
These limitations are prompting forward-looking CXOs to rethink how compliance is managed — with many turning to external experts to take control of the growing risk.
The Move To Managed Services
An increasingly preferred option for enterprises is to bring in a managed services provider to handle all compliance-related functions. The best ones eradicate all the problems associated with having internal teams manage compliance:
Choosing the right managed services partner for your compliance requirements will lead to audit-readiness and less overheads – according to a 2024 Frost & Sullivan Survey, Indian enterprises using managed compliance services cut down compliance operations overheads by 32% on average without compromising audit-readiness.
Yet, here’s the bottom line: being compliant doesn’t necessarily mean being secure.
Level Up From Cyber Compliance To Cyber Maturity
Consider this: in 2024, India saw a 61% rise in successful ransomware attacks, and 43% of them targeted fully compliant companies. The truth is, today’s attackers are moving at a much higher pace than today’s regulations. While compliance laws get updated yearly or biannually, attackers level up their tactics on a weekly, even daily basis.
Therefore, in today’s scenario, it is not enough to achieve cyber compliance. Instead, you must aspire for cyber maturity – the ability of your organization to not just prevent attacks, but also detect, respond & recover from them quickly should they occur. Cyber mature systems follow certain industry-standard pillars:
- Proactive, risk-based security posture deriving from latest threat intelligence
- Continuous control validation & threat modeling
- Comprehensive breach readiness through automated monitoring & response systems
- End-to-end visibility across your organizational cyber landscape
- Automated, real-time remediation workflows to mitigate attack impact
Be Compliant & Secure with iValue-ASPL’s Managed Services
iValue-ASPL’s security-first, compliance-aligned managed services solution makes you ready for today’s regulations, as well as tomorrow’s threats. We offer tech solutions that not only adhere to all industry, national and international regulations (DPDPA, GDPR, RBI & SEBI frameworks, etc.) but also lay the foundation to help your organization be truly secure from emerging attacks.
Through ASPL’s deep sector knowledge & iValue’s technical mastery, our partnership has enabled various companies across different industries to go beyond compliance adherence in the goal of achieving true cyber maturity.
Whether it’s for a single project or your entire cyber landscape, iValue-ASPL’s managed services help you achieve both security & compliance through industry-leading processes:
- Security integrations with best-in-breed solutions and experts
- 100% adherence to all industry, national & international compliance laws
- Continuous monitoring & quick response using smart automation
- 24×7 support through an iValue-ASPL security expert that serves as your perennial single point of contact
- Unified interface to give you full visibility over your operations
- Scalable packages that efficiently grow with your organization
Ready to Stop Playing Catch-Up with Compliance?
Explore iValue’s Managed Services and take control of your compliance journey today.
