Sebi expands committees on cyber security and information systems

Sebi expands committees on cyber security and information systems: SEBI has expanded two of its committees- (1) High Powered Steering Committee on Cyber Security (HPSC-CS) and (2) Information Systems Security Committee (ISSC).

High Powered Steering Committee on Cyber Security (HPSC-CS) was expanded to eight members from six earlier. It will continue to be chaired by Navin Kumar Singh (DG at NCIIPC). SEBI has also expanded its panel on Information Systems Security Committee (ISSC) to seven members, chaired by Prof Krishnamurthy.

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It is important to note that the committee had only four members earlier, an update with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) showed. The other members of the panel include Sanjay Bahl Director General at Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and H Krishnamurthy, who was a chief research scientist at IISC Bangalore. Sandeep Shukla and Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, who are professors at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in IIT Kanpur and IIT Kharagpur, respectively, and Sugata Gangopadhyay, head of the department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Roorkee, are the other members of the committee, the report said.