Governance & Risk Management , Privacy
India's PDP Bill: The Cybersecurity Implications
Microsoft's Keshav Dhakad on How the Personal Data Protection Bill Will Improve SecurityIndia's Personal Data Protection - or PDP - Bill is "a useful framework that requires organizations to analyze the sensitivity of data that they collect and process and use this analysis to adopt a customized cybersecurity plan," says Keshav Dhakad, general counsel and group head of corporate, external and legal affairs for Microsoft India.
"We expect a paradigm shift in the seriousness with which companies will approach cybersecurity policies, practices and organizational requirements," he says. "We expect greater emphasis on companies adopting encryption standards, multifactor authentication, de-identification and hashing tools, and penetration testing to check the robustness of the security measures and what was enabled during the pandemic - the zero trust architecture."
In a video interview with Information Security Media Group, Dhakad also discusses:
- How the PDP Bill will change the cybersecurity ecosystem;
- Highlights of the bill's data privacy regulations for CISOs;
- How the cloud helps in meeting privacy and security requirements.
Dhakad is general counsel and group head of corporate, external and legal affairs for Microsoft India. He is a trusted adviser and enabler to Microsoft India senior leaders and their diverse business establishments and drives initiatives in the areas of technology policy and regulatory, trusted cloud and responsible AI, data privacy and cybersecurity, ethical culture and compliance governance, IPR, CSR and related areas.