The Future of Financial Stability and Cyber Risk. Brookings Institution. Jason Healey et al. October 10, 2018
The financial sector has long been at the forefront of cybersecurity and industry-wide information sharing and cooperation. Even so, cyber attacks on financial institutions and financial market infrastructures have become more frequent and sophisticated, prompting ever-larger security investments and increased focus on mitigating and managing cyber risk. Parallel to these efforts, the financial sector, regulators, and national governments have been working to improve overall resiliency and stability in the hopes of preventing a repeat of panics such as the financial crisis a decade ago.
This paper takes the critical next step: examining the intersection of these two efforts. How might cyber risks and financial risks interact to cause systemic crises? Is there anything fundamentally new or different about cyber risks? How should economists, regulators, policymakers, and central bankers focused on financial stability incorporate cyber risks into their models and thinking? [Note: contains copyrighted material].
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