SEBI Launches Two New Portals To Boost Cybersecurity
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SEBI launched the Incident Reporting Portal and Cyber Suraksha Portal on 17 August to strengthen cybersecurity reporting and information sharing across the securities market, while embedding quantum resilience as a core strategic pillar.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) launched two cybersecurity portals on Monday. These are the Incident Reporting Portal and the Cyber Suraksha Portal.
The move comes as SEBI looks beyond the security of individual institutions and focuses on the wider financial ecosystem.
Speaking at SEBI’s Cyber Defence Symposium on 17 August 2026, Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said cyber threats can cross organisational, regulatory and national boundaries.
He noted that a cyber incident at one institution can affect others through vendors, technology platforms, third parties or linked institutions. This makes security across the wider ecosystem as important as protecting individual organisations.
About The Two Portals
The revamped Incident Reporting Portal aims to make cyber incident reporting faster and more organised. It follows the Financial Stability Board’s Format for Incident Reporting Exchange. This can bring more consistency to reporting and make cross-border reporting easier for SEBI-regulated entities.
The Cyber Suraksha Portal will act as a central platform for the securities market. Institutions can use it to share cybersecurity information, warnings about vulnerabilities, policy steps and details about cyber incidents.
Pandey said the portals will be useful only when institutions use them properly. He stressed that the technology itself is not the main point. Sharing information quickly and taking timely action will matter more.
From Compliance To Continuous Risk Management
Pandey said vulnerability management needs to move away from periodic compliance exercises toward a continuous, dynamic and risk-driven process. Software, cloud configurations, application programming interfaces and third-party dependencies change constantly, and artificial intelligence is accelerating both cyberattacks and defence simultaneously.
He called for intelligent, risk-based and increasingly automated patch management for critical vulnerabilities, with rapid verification that remediation has worked.
Every organisation must have a tested incident-response and recovery plan with clear responsibilities and defined processes, he said.
SEBI Focuses On Quantum Resilience
SEBI has made quantum resilience a part of its cybersecurity strategy, in line with India’s National Quantum Mission.
SEBI Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said post-quantum cryptography can no longer remain limited to research. Financial institutions now need to start planning for its use and migration.
Organisations also need to check where quantum-vulnerable encryption is being used. They need to identify the systems that rely on it and assess how quickly they can replace it.
Another focus is crypto-agility. This refers to the ability to change cryptographic algorithms without having to rebuild an entire system.
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