How Pelta Simplifies SEBI CSCRF Compliance for Regulated Entities -

How Pelta Simplifies SEBI CSCRF Compliance for Regulated Entities

Introduction: The SEBI CSCRF Landscape

The SEBI Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF) mandates financial entities including stockbrokers, depositories, and mutual fund intermediaries to establish robust governance, continuous monitoring, and incident response mechanisms to protect investor data and maintain operational integrity.

While SEBI’s objective is clear enhance cyber resilience across market intermediaries implementation remains complex. Entities must align dozens of policies, map hundreds of controls, manage vendor risks, and continuously validate cyber posture for audits.

This is where Pelta, an AI-driven Compliance, Risk, and Resilience platform, transforms regulatory execution into a seamless, auditable system.

Understanding SEBI CSCRF Requirements

SEBI CSCRF outlines essential domains such as:

Governance & Risk Management: Clear ownership of cybersecurity responsibilities.
Identification & Protection: Asset inventory, access control, and data protection.
Detection & Response: Incident monitoring, detection, and recovery processes.
Resilience: Regular testing of recovery capabilities and cyber crisis simulation.
Third-Party Management: Assessment and continuous monitoring of vendor security posture.

Each of these domains requires evidence-backed, continuously monitored control implementation a challenge when managed through traditional spreadsheets or manual workflows.

The Challenge: Manual Compliance Fatigue

Before automation, compliance teams often struggle with:

Policy-to-control mismatches across frameworks (SEBI, ISO 27001, RBI, etc.)
Fragmented evidence stored in multiple locations
Siloed vendor due diligence without audit traceability
Reactive audits with no live compliance status

This reactive cycle not only increases cost and fatigue but also limits SEBI audit readiness.

The Pelta Approach: Unified Compliance for SEBI CSCRF

Pelta’s Compliance Module provides a single source of truth for all SEBI CSCRF controls and evidence.

Key Capabilities:

Automated Policy Gap Analysis
Upload your existing policies Pelta’s AI scans them against SEBI CSCRF control requirements, identifying missing or weak clauses.
System-Driven Statement of Applicability (SoA)
Pelta maps relevant SEBI controls and auto-generates SoA with AI-drafted control justifications.
Evidence Management & Control Validation
Evidence for each control is uploaded once and reused across all frameworks (SEBI, ISO 27001, SOC 2). This ensures multi-framework traceability and audit-ready documentation.
Continuous Testing & Posture Scoring
Compliance status is no longer a point-in-time snapshot. Pelta’s cadence-based testing automatically updates control maturity and resilience posture, providing SEBI audit readiness year-round.

Third-Party Risk under SEBI CSCRF

SEBI requires intermediaries to conduct ongoing vendor risk assessments. Pelta’s Third-Party Risk Module (TPRM) enables:

Vendor tiering (High/Medium/Low criticality)
AI-assisted Vendor Onboarding Questionnaires (VOQ)
Continuous monitoring of breach alerts, certificate expiries, and SLA violations

This systematic vendor assurance process aligns directly with SEBI’s expectation for continuous vendor due diligence.

Linking Controls → Risks → Resilience

The AI-driven Risk Layer in Pelta correlates SEBI CSCRF controls with risk impact and likelihood.
For example, when assessing ransomware resilience or third-party exposure, Pelta automatically:

Selects relevant SEBI CSCRF controls
Calculates inherent and residual risk
Suggests mitigation tasks and testing cadence

This end-to-end traceability from control to residual risk ensures that SEBI-mandated resilience can be demonstrated with quantifiable data.

Example: SEBI Audit Readiness Workflow in Pelta

Upload SEBI CSCRF policy mapping template.
Perform AI gap analysis and generate updated controls.
Link evidence (system logs, policy approvals, test reports).
Trigger internal validation or auditor review.
Generate audit dashboard showing posture score, control effectiveness, and remediation trends.

Outcome: Real-time assurance and reduced manual effort by over 60–70 %, as validated in Pelta’s client case studies.

Why Pelta is the Right Fit for SEBI-Regulated Entities

Traditional Model	Pelta Advantage
Manual audits and document trails	AI-driven, evidence-linked SoA
Excel-based risk matrices	Real-time risk and resilience dashboards
Periodic vendor checks	Continuous third-party monitoring
Fragmented frameworks	Unified multi-framework compliance

Pelta transforms compliance from an obligation to a continuous resilience function.

Conclusion

With SEBI tightening its oversight under CSCRF, financial institutions must adopt platforms that bring automation, accountability, and assurance together.

Pelta enables regulated entities to move from reactive compliance to continuous cyber resilience with live dashboards, AI insights, and systemized evidence.

To learn how Pelta’s unified compliance and risk automation platform helps regulated entities achieve SEBI CSCRF cyber resilience through automation, visibility, and continuous assurance.

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