Stockbrokers asked to sign up for 'Cyber Swachhta Kendra' to mitigate cyber risk

The exchange added that other members, who do not fulfil the given criteria, can also voluntarily subscribe to the services of CSK.

Stockbrokers, who meet certain criteria, have been asked to onboard themselves on a centralised platform, which has been set up to mitigate malware and botnet infections.

Stockbrokers having more than 50,000 active traded clients and also providing Internet Based Trading platform are required to onboard themselves on ‘Cyber Swachhta Kendra’ Platform by November 6, 2023, said a release from the National Stock Exchange (NSE) on October 16.

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The platform has been set up seeing a global rise in cyber attacks.

The NSE statement said, “In recent times, there has been a surge in cyber-attacks in organizations across the globe impacting the continuity of their business operations and causing sensitive data leakage through malware infections at end point computing devices. To mitigate such malware and botnet infections, CERT-In has launched an initiative named ‘Cyber Swachhta Kendra’ (CSK), which provides information and enables organizations to disinfect the computing devices using free-of-cost malware and botnet cleaning tools.”

The exchange added that other members, who do not fulfil the given criteria, can also voluntarily subscribe to the services of CSK.

Under the guidelines for onboarding of stockbrokers onto the platform, the following details have been asked: 1. Member ID; 2. Member Name; 3. Registered and Correspondence address; 4. Details of the number of data centres and their locations; 5. Name and contact details (email ID and postal address) of the Chief Information Security Officer/ Chief Information Officer (CISO/CIO); 6. All Public IP address ranges used by respective organization (data centre, branches etc.) in CIDR notation. (Classless Inter-Domain Routing -CIDR); and 7. Details of dedicated point of contact / email id for receiving automated email notification from "Cyber Swachhta Kendra" on daily basis.

These details have to be submitted to csk@cert-in.org.in.

The statement added that the trading members can communicate with CERT-In Cyber Swachhta Kendra through email address "csk@cert-in.org.in" and contact number 1800-11-4949.