SECP launches Security Operations Center to strengthen cybersecurity

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has opened a Security Operations Center to monitor its digital systems and respond to cyber incidents, Business Recorder reported on Tuesday. The centre will continuously oversee the regulator’s networks, endpoints, servers and private cloud, with the aim of identifying threats early and improving operational resilience.

Karandaaz Pakistan funded the project, with Inara Technologies enabling it and REWTERZ providing support under a managed security services agreement. National Database and Registration Authority Chairman Lieutenant General Muhammad Munir Afsar inaugurated the facility. SECP also plans to connect the security operations centres of capital markets institutions through a shared framework for threat intelligence and coordinated responses, as it pursues a sector-wide cybersecurity role.