India’s new Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) was given assent by the President of India on August 11, 2023, marking a significant development in data protection legislation. This Act, which supersedes Section 43A of the IT Act, 2000 and the SPDI Rules, 2011, brings about considerable changes to the norms of data protection. The DPDP Act is lean and principle-based, with details around implementation to be set out in future rules.

Many countries across the globe are realizing the importance of the right to privacy in the digital era. The GDPR, the data privacy legislation for the European Union, came into force in 2018 and became the guiding star for an array of privacy laws. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) by the Indian government is the latest privacy law aimed at protecting individuals’ privacy while ensuring hassle-free business operations.

Today, we announced Cloudflare One for Data Protection — a unified suite to protect data everywhere across web, SaaS, and private applications. This suite converges capabilities including our data loss prevention (DLP), cloud access security broker (CASB), Zero Trust network access (ZTNA), secure web gateway (SWG), remote browser isolation (RBI), and cloud email security services. The suite is available and packaged now as part of Cloudflare One, our SASE platform.

Data continues to explode in volume, variety, and velocity, and security teams at organizations of all sizes are challenged to keep up. Businesses face escalating risks posed by varied SaaS environments, the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and the exposure and theft of valuable source code continues to keep CISOs and Data Officers up at night.

Data in motion, also known as data in transit, is the transmission of digital information from one location to another. This can include: Data in motion is just one of three data states, including data at rest and data in use.