CSCRF Compliance: Turning Regulatory Challenges into Cyber Resilience

The Security Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI) Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF) is set to become a game-changer for India’s financial sector. With mandatory compliance deadlines that began in January 2025, financial institutions must adopt robust cybersecurity practices, faster incident response, and continuous audit readiness.

The challenge? Meeting CSCRF’s strict requirements without overburdening security teams.

At Binalyze, we work with enterprise SOC teams and MSSPs facing these exact challenges. We’ve seen firsthand how manual forensic investigations, disjointed reporting, and slow response times can put compliance—and business resilience—at risk. That’s why we built Binalyze AIR to automate and simplify digital forensics and incident response, in turn helping with CSCRF compliance.

Breaking Down CSCRF Compliance Requirements

CSCRF introduces five NEW core principles that financial institutions must integrate into their security operations:

✅ Anticipate – Proactively identify and mitigate cyber risks
✅ Withstand – Maintain business continuity during cyberattacks
✅ Contain – Isolate and minimize the impact of security incidents
✅ Recover – Restore normal operations rapidly
✅ Evolve – Continuously enhance cybersecurity defenses

To achieve this, SEBI requires organizations to:

✔️ Report cyber incidents within 6, 24, 72 hours and submit a detailed report within 30 days
✔️ Maintain a Cyber Capability Index (CCI), assessed across 23 cybersecurity parameters
✔️ Carry out and submit quarterly and annual audits, including Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing (VAPT), SOC effectiveness, and ISO 27001 assessments
✔️ Ensure real-time monitoring through an internal or external SOC

For many organizations, this level of operational visibility and reporting can feel overwhelming—but it doesn’t have to be.

How Binalyze AIR Automates Elements of CSCRF Compliance

Binalyze AIR eliminates compliance complexity by automating and standardising incident response processes and plans, forensic investigation workflows, and regulatory reporting. 

Traditional incident response methods are increasingly failing to address the complexities of modern infrastructures. Comprehensive Investigations are plagued by manual, fragmented processes, siloed tools, and insufficient visibility—resulting in extended response times, higher costs, and greater operational disruption.

Binalyze identified this gap early, envisioning a more efficient, scalable, and integrated approach to investigation and response. By automating the collection, correlation, and analysis of forensic data across hybrid environments, Binalyze AIR has been at the forefront of redefining digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) practices.

As a result, our platform helps organizations meet and exceed a number of CSCRF requirements without manual overhead.

Faster Incident Response & Reporting

• Collect forensic evidence in under 10 minutes across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments

• Meet SEBI’s strict 6, 24, 72-hour reporting deadlines with rapid access to conclusive information needed

• Enable collaborative investigations with a unified workspace for security teams

• Seamless integration with SOC monitoring and detection tools like EDR, SIEM, and SOAR

Audit Readiness & Compliance Reporting

• Automated compliance reports for CCI, VAPT, and SOC effectiveness

• Forensic chain of custody with time-stamped, hashed evidence

• Continuous audit readiness with automated documentation

Proactive Threat Hunting & Compromise Assessments

• Automated compromise assessments to improve Cyber Capability Index (CCI) scores

• Threat hunting at scale with embedded MITRE ATT&CK Analyzer, YARA, and Sigma rules

Breach Notification & Regulatory Compliance

• Automated breach notification workflows for SEBI compliance

• Pre-configured reporting templates for different stakeholders

• Time-stamped forensic validation to meet regulatory standards

Why Binalyze AIR?

Unlike traditional digital forensic tools that require deep technical expertise and time-consuming investigations, Binalyze AIR provides smart automation to accelerate the process - removing manual bottlenecks and scaling expertise —without sacrificing depth of analysis.

✅ Fast & Scalable: Incident data acquisition in under 10 minutes
✅ Easy to Deploy & Use: No complex configurations required
✅ Seamlessly Integrates: Works with your existing SOC tools including, SIEM, EDR and SOAR tools
✅ Proven in Enterprise & MSSP Environments: Trusted by leading financial institutions & cybersecurity teams

Get Ahead of CSCRF Compliance Today

CSCRF compliance is no longer optional—it’s a regulatory requirement with strict deadlines. But instead of viewing compliance as a burden, it’s an opportunity to enhance cybersecurity resilience, improve response efficiency, and strengthen trust with regulators and customers.

🔗 Discover how Binalyze AIR simplifies CSCRF compliance →