RIT provides customized cyber risk educational series to S&P Global Ratings

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Rochester Institute of Technology cybersecurity experts recently worked with the credit analysts from S&P Global Ratings in an educational partnership aimed at better framing the impact that cyber risk plays on an organization’s creditworthiness.

Credit analysts from S&P Global Ratings, the world’s leading provider of independent credit ratings, participated in seven customized, immersive training sessions led by experts from RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute (GCI). The interactive training combined theory with practice, allowing participants to gain real-world understanding of the current cybersecurity environment and contextualize the key issues in cyber risk today.

“When a company or government is hit with a cyber breach, there is very real potential for serious business, reputational, and financial losses,” said Sudeep Kesh, Deputy Head of Analytical Innovation at S&P Global Ratings. “We have been including cyber risk in our credit risk analysis for several years now and the RIT training further accelerated our knowledge as the importance of cyber risk management continues to evolve.”

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