Ranking Cyber Risks to Information Companies with Cyber Risk Quantification

The information industry broadly speaking includes organizations in telecommunications, online information services, data processing and IT infrastructure. Sophisticated tech players they may be, but you couldn’t ask for an industry with a bigger attack surface for cybersecurity risk management.

For the recently released 2023 Cybersecurity Risk Report, the RiskLens data science team applied cyber risk quantification, FAIR risk analysis and curated industry data to reveal fresh insights about the probable loss exposure for cyber risks that the information sector needs to understand to plan effective security investments.

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As a sector, information industry organizations:

>>Hold plentiful PII

>>Store and move tons of data

>>Hold valuable IP such as source code

>>Prioritize speed to market over security

>>Are in the crosshairs of privacy regulators (for GDPR, etc.)

>>Are likely to get sued over cyber loss events 

And other factors all likely to keep their names in the data breach headlines. 

Some recent examples of information industry cyber loss events:

>>September, 2022. Optus, the second largest wireless carrier in…