sebi:Order/AK/GN/2025-26/31541

SEBI · SEBI · 2025-04-08 · Amit Kapoor, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

The adjudicating officer found that the Noticee violated the requirements concerning connection of critical systems to the Exchange LAMA system and capacity-utilization alert thresholds. The supplied text does not state the final penalty or other operative disposition.

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 199

Parties

• Goodwill Wealth Management Private Limited

Holding

The adjudicating officer found that the Noticee violated the LAMA-related requirement by failing to connect its critical systems as required. The officer also found a violation because alerts were configured at 80% of installed capacity rather than the prescribed 70%.

Full text

Adjudication Order in the matter of Thematic Inspection of Goodwill Wealth Management Private Limited Page 2 of 28 SHOW CAUSE NOTICE, REPLY AND HEARING

Adjudication Order in the matter of Thematic Inspection of Goodwill Wealth Management Private Limited Page 3 of 28 6.4 Software testing Framework and automated test environments 6.4.1 During inspection it was observed that Noticee has not submitted any software testing framework and automated test environment that is in place for testing any update/change/development in software. 6.4.2 In view of the above, it was alleged that Noticee violated Clause 64.5.1.1, 64.5.1.2 and 64.5.1.3 of SEBI Master Circular for Stock Brokers no. SEBI /HO/MIRSD/MIRSD-PoD-1/P/CIR/2024/110 dated August 09, 2024 r/w Clause 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 of SEBI Circular No. SEBI/HO/MIRSD/TPD-1/P/CIR/2022/160 dated November 25, 2022. 6.5 Change Management Process and BCP-DR Policy 6.5.1 During inspection it was observed that Noticee did not have its own BCP DR Policy and change Management policy in place. 6.5.2 In view of the above, it was alleged that Noticee violated Clause 64.5.1.4 and 64.7.2 of SEBI Master Circular no. SEBI /HO/MIRSD/MIRSD-PoD-1/P/CIR/ 2024/110 dated August 09,2024 r/w clause 4 (viii), 6 (x) and 6 (xi) of NSE circular NSE/COMP/54876 dated December 16, 2022. 6.6 Incident and Response Team/Crisis Management Team 6.6.1 During inspection it was observed that Noticee did not constitute its incident and response Team/Crisis Management. Further, it did not have Incident and response plan in place. 6.6.2 In view of the above, it was alleged that Noticee violated Clause 5 of Code of Conduct laid down

Adjudication Order in the matter of Thematic Inspection of Goodwill Wealth Management Private Limited Page 4 of 28 SEBI/HO/MIRSD/TPD/P/CIR/2022/80 dated June 07, 2022 on Modification in cyber security and cyber resilience framework for Stock Brokers 6.8 Appropriate monitoring systems and processes to facilitate continuous monitoring of security events, alerts/timely detection of unauthorized/ malicious activities 6.8.1 During inspection it was observed that Noticee has failed to explain the incident response management, threat detection tools, escalation matrix process that have been followed by it, in case of any cyber security threat. 6.8.2 In view of the above, it was alleged that Noticee violated Clause 61.47 of SEBI Master Circular no. SEBI /HO/MIRSD/MIRSD-PoD-1/P/CIR/2024/110 dated August 09, 2024 r/w 8,45 and 47 of SEBI circular SEBI/HO/MIRSD/CIR/ PB/2018/147 dated December 03, 2018 of Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience Framework of Stock Brokers. 6.9 Access to Critical System- 6.9.1 During inspection it was observed that Noticee has not furnished the list of users who have been granted access to their critical servers, the purpose of access and period for which access are granted. 6.9.2 In view of the above, it was alleged that Noticee violated Clause 61.16 of SEBI Master Circular no. SEBI /HO/MIRSD/MIRSD-PoD-1/P/CIR/2024/110 dated August 09,2024 r/w Clause 10,14, 15 and 19 of SEBI circular SEBI/HO/MIRSD/ CIR/PB/2018/147 dated December 03, 2018 of Cyber Security and

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