Sebi on Thursday requested inventory brokers and depositories members to report all cyber assaults, threats and breaches skilled by them inside six hours of detecting such incidents.
They should report such incidents inside the specified time to the exchanges, depositories and the regulator.
The incident can even be reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response workforce (CERT-In) in accordance with the rules issued by CERT-In now and again, in line with a round.
Additionally, the inventory brokers and depository members, whose techniques have been recognized as ‘protected system’ by National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) can even report such incidents to NCIIPC.
“All cyber attacks, threats, cyber incidents and breaches experienced by stock brokers/ depositories participants shall be reported to stock exchanges/ depositories and Sebi within six hours of noticing/ detecting such incidents or being brought to notice about such incidents,” Sebi stated within the round.
The quarterly experiences containing data on cyber assaults, threats, cyber incidents and breaches skilled by the inventory brokers and depository members and measures taken to mitigate the vulnerabilities, together with data on bugs vulnerabilities, threats which may be helpful for others, should be submitted to the exchanges and depositories inside 15 days from the tip of each quarter.
This data shall be shared to Sebi by a devoted e-mail id.
Earlier this month, the regulator prescribed the framework for cyber safety and cyber resilience for inventory brokers and depository members.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”