EdTech and education — DPDP, children's data and enterprise assurance

Applicable regulations

• DPDP Act 2023 — verifiable parental consent and heightened duties for children's data
• CERT-In directions (incident reporting, logging, empanelled testing)
• ISO 27001 ISMS and SOC 2 for institutional and enterprise buyers
• Data-localisation and privacy expectations for education data

Common cybersecurity risks

• Exposure of minors' personal data and learning records
• Weak consent and age-assurance flows under DPDP
• Account takeover across student, parent and teacher portals
• Insecure APIs and third-party integrations (payments, content, analytics)
• Breach-notification and incident-response gaps

Audit findings we typically see

• No DPDP-aligned consent, age-gating or children's-data handling
• Over-collection and long retention of student personal data
• Critical VAPT findings on web and mobile apps left unremediated
• Weak access controls and logging across multi-tenant platforms
• No CERT-In-aligned incident-response process

Services required

• DPDP compliance (children's-data duties)
• VAPT for web, mobile and APIs
• SOC 2 readiness for enterprise buyers
• ISO 27001 ISMS
• Security architecture review

Our engagement approach

• Discovery. Map personal-data flows (incl. minors'), consent and third-party integrations; confirm DPDP, CERT-In and buyer-driven obligations.
• Assessment. VAPT across web/mobile/APIs plus a DPDP and ISO 27001/SOC 2 control-gap review.
• Remediation. A prioritised roadmap covering consent/age-assurance, data minimisation, app fixes and access controls.
• Assurance. Retest, audit-grade reporting and buyer-ready assurance evidence.

Expected evidence

• Personal-data inventory and consent/age-assurance design
• VAPT reports with closure evidence
• Access-control and logging evidence across tenants
• Incident-response and breach-notification procedure

Deliverables

• DPDP gap assessment with children's-data controls
• VAPT reports with closure evidence
• SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness roadmap
• Buyer-ready assurance evidence pack