Netskope Introduces NewEdge Management Plane in India to Enable DPDPA Compliance and Data Sovereignty to Customers

Netskope, a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era, officially introduced to all organizations its management plane in India, located in Mumbai. This strategic deployment extends Netskope’s existing NewEdge Network infrastructure of eight data centres across India, to further support India-based organisations using the Netskope One platform to meet the data sovereignty and compliance requirements mandated by India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA), including provisions applying to Significant Data Fiduciaries, and sector-specific frameworks such as the RBI’s IT and security requirements, and SEBI’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF). 

The DPDPA introduces stricter data protection rules and penalties, and together with other sector-specific frameworks, maintains the need for some organisations, especially in government and critical infrastructure, to host and process certain categories of data strictly within India. As Indian organisations strengthen their security and data protection capabilities to comply with ...