Implementing a cyber risk policy
Cyber risk

Today, cyber risk is becoming one of the main sources of operational risk. It is receiving increasing attention from both private and public players, given the potentially crippling consequences for infrastructures of a major cyber incident. We need only recall the major outage of July 19, 2024 (Microsoft worldwide outage), even if no forensic evidence of a computer attack has been demonstrated to date.

Cyber risk is characterized by a deliberate, unauthorized intrusion into a system to obtain secure information for the purposes of espionage, extortion or humiliation.

The generic term "cybercrime" refers to all criminal offences committed via computer networks and new technologies. These are the same offences as those committed in the physical world, but in the virtual world of digital networks.

Cybercrime is therefore...