Clarifications to Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF) for SEBI Regulated Entities

The record

What it says

• Revises the CSCRF categorisation criteria and thresholds, including for Depository Participants.
• Is the operative source for which category a regulated entity falls into, in preference to the thresholds printed in the original framework.
• Issued 30 April 2025, between the two extensions of the compliance deadline.

What accounts of this instrument get wrong

Read the instrument

The link below goes to the issuing regulator’s own copy. Where a regulator serves its text through a PDF viewer or a query-string URL, it points at the document rather than at a landing page that may not render it.

• SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2025/60 — SEBI’s own copy

Instruments that change what this one requires

Not a reading list. Each of these alters the obligation on this page — the amendment that moved a date, the sibling that binds the entity class this one excludes, or the separate track it is routinely merged with.

• SEBI CSCRF SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2024/113 — SEBI regulated entities, graded into five categories with obligations scaled to the category.
• CSCRF clarifications, December 2024 SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2024/184 — Answers to the first round of queries on CSCRF.
• Technical clarifications, August 2025 SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2025/119 — Technical readings of the CSCRF standards, issued three days before the deadline fell.

This record is one entry in the Indian cyber regulation register, which publishes the same fields for every instrument as an open dataset. Indicative, and not legal advice: whether an instrument reaches your organisation turns on your licences and registrations, and is a determination for your legal team.