SEBI Pushes DR Drills Into Regulator-Grade Recovery Testing

SEBI is pushing disaster recovery into a stricter, testable control regime, where firms must prove they can recover under realistic conditions, not just document the plan.

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What is this trend?

SEBI is turning disaster recovery from a documented requirement into a regulator-tested operating discipline, forcing market infrastructure firms to prove failover, capacity, and resilience under live drill conditions.

  • DR drills must start at primary sites and run from the DR site for 4+ hours.
  • Testing now covers volumes, orders/sec, masters, databases, tables, and fault tolerance.
  • Recovery evidence must be repeatable, documented, and reviewed by technology oversight.
  • Identity recovery and backup isolation remain major weak points in real-world resilience.
  • Operations teams need recovery engineering, not just failover procedures.

What’s the latest?

SEBI’s latest proposal now pushes market infrastructure institutions beyond having recovery procedures on paper and into proving them under regulator-grade conditions: non-working-day DR drills would

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How it developed

  1. Governed AI Workflows, Real-Time Control Towers, and Versioned OT Recovery

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