New Delhi, July 6: Capital markets regulator SEBI on Wednesday asked Qualified Registrars of Issue and Share Transfer Agents (QRTAs) and KYC Registration Agencies (KRAs) to take six hours to detect all such cyber attacks, threats and breaches. Report within. Events.
In two separate circulars, the regulator said that the incident will also be reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) as per the guidelines issued by CERT-In from time to time.
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Additionally, QRTA and KRA, whose systems have been identified as ‘protected systems’ by the National Center for Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure (NCIIPC), will also report such incidents to NCIIPC. In a circular on Wednesday, the regulator said, “All cyber attacks, threats, cyber incidents and breaches experienced by the QRTA shall be reported to SEBI within six hours of the detection of such incidents or the occurrence of such incidents.” Will be done.”
It has also issued a similar direction to the KRA.
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Quarterly reports containing information on cyber attacks, threats, cyber incidents and breaches experienced by QRTA as well as KRA and measures taken to mitigate vulnerabilities, including information about bug vulnerabilities, threats that may pose to others may be useful, have to be submitted. SEBI within 15 days from the end of every quarter.
This information will be shared to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) through a dedicated e-mail ID. Last month, the regulator came out with a similar directive for stock brokers and depository participants.
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