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

The record

What it says

• Sets out technical readings of the standards CSCRF requires.
• Issued 28 August 2025, three days before the twice-extended compliance deadline fell.
• The fifth and latest of the circulars amending or clarifying CSCRF.

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/2025/119 — 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, April 2025 SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2025/60 — Revised the CSCRF categorisation criteria and thresholds, including for Depository Participants.
• Second extension, June 2025 SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_CSC_EXT/P/CIR/2025/96 — Moved the CSCRF deadline to 31 August 2025, again excluding MIIs, KRAs and QRTAs.

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.