Breach ManagementSection 8(6)

Personal Data Breach Response

Triage, classify, notify the Data Protection Board within 72 hours, and document the post-incident review.

The problem

The 72-hour breach notification clock under Section 8(6) starts the moment your team becomes aware of facts that suggest a breach may have occurred, not the moment you have certainty. Most Indian organisations have no incident-response runbook tailored to that clock, no template for the Board notification, and no forensic chain-of-custody. When the first real incident lands, they spend 48 of the 72 hours figuring out who decides what.

What you get

Capabilities, not feature toggles

Every capability below is a working part of the AutoCops application, not a roadmap promise.

Incident intake + war room

One link to start an incident. AutoCops creates a dedicated channel, pages the on-call team, and starts the 72-hour clock from your declared time of awareness.

Severity classifier

Walk through a structured questionnaire and AutoCops scores the incident on five dimensions: scale, sensitivity, impact, recoverability, and notification triggers. The output tells you whether the Board notification is mandatory and whether affected Data Principals must be informed.

Board notification template

Pre-written, lawyer-reviewed Board notification that auto-fills the incident facts. You edit, your DPO signs, you submit. The clock stops when the submission is acknowledged.

Affected-principal notification

Bulk email or SMS notification to affected Data Principals, in their language, with a personalised explanation of what happened, what data was affected, what the organisation is doing, and what they can do.

Forensic timeline

Every action taken during the incident, every decision, every comm, every file uploaded, is timestamped and chained to the incident record. Your post-incident review writes itself.

Drill mode

Run a tabletop exercise without polluting the production audit trail. Practice the 72-hour scramble before it's real.

How it works

From zero to live in days, not months

1
Declare
Anyone with access can declare an incident. The clock starts at the declared moment of awareness.
2
Classify
The structured triage produces a severity score and tells you which notifications are mandatory.
3
Notify
Send the Board notification within 72 hours and (where required) the affected-principal notification.
4
Remediate
Track containment, eradication, and recovery actions in the incident timeline.
5
Review
Post-incident review with timeline, decisions, lessons, and corrective actions, exported as a PDF for the audit committee.

Common questions

Things buyers ask in the demo

What if we're not sure it's actually a breach?+

Declare it anyway. Section 8(6) awareness is a legal concept, not a forensic one. Declaring early and downgrading later is much safer than declaring late.

Can we use this for incidents that aren't breaches?+

Yes, many teams use AutoCops for any privacy-relevant incident, even when notification isn't required. The platform handles the workflow regardless of whether the incident becomes a notification event.

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Personal Data Breach Response

Capabilities, not feature toggles

Incident intake + war room

Severity classifier

Board notification template

Affected-principal notification

Forensic timeline

Drill mode

From zero to live in days, not months

Declare

Classify

Notify

Remediate

Review

Things buyers ask in the demo

Book a 30-minute walkthrough

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