SECP sets up modern centre to combat cyber threats

October 20, 2026 (MLN): The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has established a modern Security Operations Centre (SOC) to protect critical information assets, identify cyber threats at an early stage and enable timely in SECP Chairman Dr. Kabir Ahmed Sidhu, Commissioners Imtiaz Haider, Muzzafar Ahmed Mirza and Zeeshan Khattak, along with other senior officials, attended the inauguration ceremony.

The SOC will continuously monitor SECP’s networks, endpoints, servers and private cloud environments. Funded by Karandaaz Pakistan, acting as the implementing agency for the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), enabled by Inara Technologies, Pakistan, and supported by REWTERZ under a Managed Security Services Provider agreement, the centre will operate in accordance with recognised international standards and global best practices.

In a separate meeting, Dr. Sidhu briefed the NADRA chairman on the SECP’s IT reforms, infrastructure modernisation and adoption of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to improve service delivery and facilitate ease of doing business.

The SECP also plans to integrate the Security Operations Centres of Capital Market Institutions (CMIs) into a sector-wide framework for sharing threat intelligence and coordinating incident response.

The initiative will support the commission’s envisioned role as a Sectoral Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and Sectoral SOC.cident response, strengthening its cybersecurity and operational resilience.

Chairman of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), Lieutenant General Muhammad Munir Afsar, inaugurated the centre and appreciated the initiative, highlighting the importance of cybersecurity.

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