Security News > 2020 > November > India securities regulator suggests webcam surveillance of finance folk who work from home

India's Securities and Exchange Board appears to have sent a circular to stock exchanges that calls for market participants to upgrade information security as bad actors seek to take advantage of the financial services industry's move to working from home.

SEBI appears not to have made its document public, but India's National Stock Exchange - the nation's largest - plus the Bombay Stock Exchange and Multi Commodity Exchange of India all late last week published the same 14-point security guidelines that say SEBI has called for market participants to implement a security baseline on the computers their staff use when working from home.

"Remote access has to be monitored continuously for any abnormal access and appropriate alerts and alarms should be generated to address this breach before the damage is done," the advice adds, continuing: "For on-site monitoring, the intermediary shall implement adequate safeguard mechanism such as cameras, security guards, nearby co-workers to reinforce technological activities."

Market participants are also told to have logs gathered by their security operations centres analysed from a remote location.

"The security controls implemented for the Remote Access requirements need to be integrated with the SOC Engine and should become a part of the overall monitoring of the security posture."

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