{"id":264784,"date":"2026-06-05T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/dpdp-and-cybersecurity-the-rise-of-data-minimization\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:10:23","slug":"dpdp-and-cybersecurity-the-rise-of-data-minimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/dpdp-and-cybersecurity-the-rise-of-data-minimization\/","title":{"rendered":"DPDP And Cybersecurity: The Rise Of Data Minimization"},"content":{"rendered":"

DPDP And Cybersecurity: The Rise Of Data Minimization<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/thecyberexpress.com\/dpdp-and-cybersecurity-rethinking-data-risk\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-05 03:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: thecyberexpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

By Malcolm Gomes, COO, IDfy<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Seventy percent of all sensitive data sitting in enterprise systems right now has not been accessed, used, or reviewed in years, according to a Data Risk report from 2021. It was never deleted when it should have been and, in a breach, it is just as exposed as everything else. For years, enterprises treated personal data as an asset to be collected first and governed later. More data meant better personalization, sharper analytics, stronger fraud models, and business intelligence. But in DPDP and cybersecurity, that equation is changing. Data without a clear purpose is no longer an asset. It is an attack surface.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s cyber risk environment makes this urgent. In 2025, CERT-In handled over 29.44 lakh cyber incidents. IBM\u2019s 2025 breach research pegged the average cost of a data breach in India at \u20b9220 million, while the global average stood at USD 4.44 million. Verizon\u2019s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 31% of breaches now start with software vulnerability exploitation, overtaking stolen credentials as the leading entry point.<\/p>\n

What that figure means in practice is that attackers are no longer just looking for weak passwords. They are looking for unguarded data stores, and enterprises that hold more data than they need are giving attackers more to find.<\/p>\n

Why DPDP and Cybersecurity Are Now Closely Connected<\/h2>\n

This is why the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) framework should not be viewed only as privacy compliance. It is also a cybersecurity reset. It forces enterprises to ask a fundamental security question: why are we holding this data in the first place?<\/p>\n

Data minimization is not about doing less business. It is about reducing unnecessary exposure. Every extra field collected, every duplicated customer record, every old document retained beyond its purpose, and every vendor copy sitting outside the organization\u2019s control expands the blast radius of a breach.<\/p>\n

Security teams can encrypt systems…<\/p>\n

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