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Proofpoint, Privaclave expand in India as DPDP deadline approaches
Proofpoint announced expansion of its India operations, including a new AI Security Engineering Centre of Excellence in Hyderabad with plans to hire over 200 engineers, and a new Delhi office. The company…
Proofpoint announced expansion of its India operations, including a new AI Security Engineering Centre of Excellence in Hyderabad with plans to hire over 200 engineers, and a new Delhi office. The company said its India business has tripled in 12 months and the number of seats protected has increased 600 percent over 18 months. Recent customer wins include BFSI, defence, and public-sector organisations.
Separately, US fintech Privaclave AI is expanding its India focus with runtime data protection as the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) deadline approaches. Key DPDP requirements take effect May 13, 2027, with penalties of up to ₹250 crore for violations. Privaclave said its platform protects data at runtime without application rewrites, and LXMQ has selected it as a design partner.
Both companies cite rising AI deployment. Proofpoint reported 87 percent of organisations globally have deployed AI, while 99 percent of Indian CISOs surveyed reported material loss of sensitive data.
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ETCISO frames the expansion as a success story: Proofpoint tripled India business, won defence and public-sector clients, and cites a CEO who ties AI adoption to data protection. The Yahoo Finance article reports on Privaclave, a smaller US fintech, and focuses on the 2027 DPDP penalty deadline (₹250 crore) and the specific technical gap of runtime protection that Discovery alone cannot close. Both run on wire-copy framing, though ETCISO leads with Proofpoint's rollout while Yahoo leads with a customer win and the regulatory threat. Together, the two pieces show that DPDP implementation is now a concrete catalyst for security spending, and that companies are segmenting the market between compliance-first detection and active prevention. The proof point to watch is whether India's stiff penalty regime drives the adoption of runtime protection tools beyond the larger vendors' ecosystem.
Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): ciso.economictimes.indiatimes.com (neutral report), finance.yahoo.com (neutral report)
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
