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SEBI’s Cybersecurity & Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF): How Pelta Helps You Stay Compliant & Audit-Ready
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has taken a bold step by releasing the Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF), a landmark directive that supersedes all earlier SEBI cybersecurity circulars and advisories. As the backbone of India’s financial markets, SEBI-regulated entities (REs) from intermediaries to market infrastructure institutions are now expected to adopt a comprehensive, risk-based approach to cybersecurity.
This isn’t just about compliance. It’s about building resilience the ability to anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents.
At Peltatech, we’ve built Pelta, a next-generation AI-powered Compliance, Risk, and Audit Management platform specifically to help financial institutions simplify regulatory adoption, automate controls, and stay SEBI CSCRF-ready every single day.
What SEBI Expects Under CSCRF
The CSCRF defines 128 detailed requirements across governance, risk management, controls, and resilience. In short, SEBI expects every regulated entity to:
- Establish Strong Governance: Define roles, responsibilities, policies, and board-level oversight.
- Manage Risk Proactively: Identify cyber risks, assess third-party/vendor risks, and maintain a risk register.
- Protect Critical Assets: Implement access controls, secure coding, patch management, and encryption.
- Detect Threats Early: Continuous monitoring, event logging, anomaly detection, and SOC integration.
- Respond Effectively: Incident response playbooks, forensics, escalation, and reporting to SEBI.
- Recover Quickly: Business continuity, disaster recovery, and resilience testing.
- Continuously Improve: Regular reviews, vulnerability assessments, and maturity scoring.
- Mandatory VAPT by CERT-In Auditors: With strict SLAs (e.g., critical vulnerabilities closed within 24 hours).
- Comprehensive Compliance Reporting: Periodic self-assessments, auditor validations, and submissions to SEBI.
Put simply: SEBI has raised the bar and expects entities to go beyond checkbox compliance to operational resilience.
The Challenges of SEBI CSCRF Compliance
- For most regulated entities, implementing CSCRF is far more challenging than it appears on paper.
- The framework covers governance, risk management, controls, monitoring, incident response, and resilience areas that require continuous attention and coordination.
- Many organizations still rely on spreadsheets, fragmented documentation, and siloed processes, which lead to delays, errors, and unnecessary audit stress.
- As GRC consultants, we know how difficult it is to maintain real-time visibility into risks, track vendor exposures, and prepare for audits without last-minute surprises that could trigger non-compliance findings.
- Layer on the pressures of mandatory VAPT, rapid remediation of critical vulnerabilities, and rigorous BCP/DR testing, and it’s easy to see why keeping pace with SEBI’s requirements is such a struggle.
This is precisely where Pelta makes a tangible difference.
How Pelta Simplifies SEBI CSCRF Compliance
As GRC consultants, we’ve spoken to countless CISOs, compliance heads, and audit leaders across banks, brokers, AMCs, and depositories. The challenge is universal: SEBI’s CSCRF is comprehensive, but manual compliance is unsustainable.
- Pre-Mapped SEBI CSCRF Controls
- Our platform comes with preconfigured control libraries mapped directly to SEBI CSCRF requirements.
- No more spreadsheets. Every control from governance to recovery is tracked in one dashboard.
- Risk & Vendor Management Made Simple
- Maintain a real-time risk register aligned to SEBI’s risk-based approach.
- Automate third-party/vendor risk assessments with evidence collection and reminders.
- Incident & Vulnerability Tracking
- Track CERT-In VAPT findings with remediation SLAs.
- Automate escalations for critical vulnerabilities due in 24h.
- Maintain an incident response playbook, with forensic logs and lessons learned.
- Business Continuity & Recovery
- Embed BCP/DR test schedules, recovery metrics, and scenario-based drills.
- Ensure resilience is tested, tracked, and continuously improved.
- Audit-Ready, Always
- Generate SEBI-compliant reports in regulator-ready formats quarterly, half-yearly, or annual.
- Store all evidence (logs, approvals, reports) in a tamper-proof repository with full audit trails.
- Answer auditor queries with a single click.
- Continuous Maturity Tracking
- Assess your organization’s cyber resilience maturity against SEBI’s expectations.
- Identify gaps and auto-generate a remediation roadmap.
Why Leading Financial Institutions Choose Pelta
- AI-Powered Efficiency: Reduce manual compliance efforts by up to 60%.
- Audit Confidence: Always be ready for SEBI inspections or external audits.
- Regulatory Alignment: Built with SEBI CSCRF as a foundation, adaptable to RBI, ISO 27001, and SOC 2.
- Scalable: Whether you’re a broker, AMC, custodian, or exchange, Pelta scales with your needs.
- Proactive Compliance: Don’t just react to SEBI mandates stay ahead with predictive insights.
SEBI’s CSCRF is a milestone in strengthening India’s securities market. For regulated entities, the message is clear: cyber resilience is no longer optional, it’s mandatory.
At Peltatech, we believe compliance should be a catalyst not a burden. With Pelta, we empower your teams to move from reactive compliance to proactive resilience, ensuring you are not just CSCRF-compliant, but truly cyber-resilient.
“Because in today’s market, resilience isn’t just protection it’s trust.”
