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This paper introduces a two-pillar cyber risk management framework to address the pervasive challenges in managing cyber risk. The first pillar, cyber risk assessment, combines insurance frequency-severity models with cybersecurity cascade…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-01-13 Wing Fung Chong , Runhuan Feng , Hins Hu , Linfeng Zhang

There are two strategic and longstanding questions about cyber risk that organizations largely have been unable to answer: What is an organization's estimated risk exposure and how does its security compare with peers? Answering both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Taylor Reynolds , Sarah Scheffler , Daniel J. Weitzner , Angelina Wu

We introduce a game-theoretic model to investigate the strategic interaction between a cyber insurance policyholder whose premium depends on her self-reported security level and an insurer with the power to audit the security level upon…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Sakshyam Panda , Daniel W Woods , Aron Laszka , Andrew Fielder , Emmanouil Panaousis

In this contribution we consider the overall risk given as the sum of random subrisks $\mathbf{X}_j$ in the context of value-at-risk (VaR) based risk calculations. If we assume that the undertaking knows the parametric distribution family…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2017-04-07 Andreas Fröhlich , Annegret Weng

Digitization increases business opportunities and the risk of companies being victims of devastating cyberattacks. Therefore, managing risk exposure and cybersecurity strategies is essential for digitized companies that want to survive in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Muriel Figueredo Franco , Fabian Künzler , Jan von der Assen , Chao Feng , Burkhard Stiller

Malicious softwares or malwares for short have become a major security threat. While originating in criminal behavior, their impact are also influenced by the decisions of legitimate end users. Getting agents in the Internet, and in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Marc Lelarge

The well-worn George Box aphorism ``all models are wrong, but some are useful'' is particularly salient in the cybersecurity domain, where the assumptions built into a model can have substantial financial or even national security impacts.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Erick Galinkin , Emmanouil Pountourakis , Spiros Mancoridis

Cybersecurity risk management consists of several steps including the selection of appropriate controls to minimize risks. This is a difficult task that requires to search through all possible subsets of a set of available controls and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Majid Mollaeefar , Silvio Ranise

Cybersecurity planning is challenging for digitized companies that want adequate protection without overspending money. Currently, the lack of investments and perverse economic incentives are the root cause of cyberattacks, which results in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Muriel Figueredo Franco , Christian Omlin , Oliver Kamer , Eder John Scheid , Burkhard Stiller

Several sources of uncertainty have to be taken into account in the analysis and design of CPS. The set of parameters used in the model of the physical plant of a CPS may be uncertain due, for example, to manufacturing processes that are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Alessandro Pinto

Cyber risk has become a critical financial threat in today's interconnected digital economy. This paper introduces a cyber-risk management framework for networked digital systems that combines the strategic behavior of players with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Elisa Botteghi , Martino S. Centonze , Davide Pastorello , Daniele Tantari

Proactive cyber-risk assessment is gaining momentum due to the wide range of sectors that can benefit from the prevention of cyber-incidents by preserving integrity, confidentiality, and the availability of data. The rising attention to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-11 Mario Angelelli , Serena Arima , Christian Catalano , Enrico Ciavolino

We focus on model risk and risk sensitivity when addressing the insurability of cyber risk. The standard statistical approaches to assessment of insurability and potential mispricing are enhanced in several aspects involving consideration…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-30 Gareth W. Peters , Matteo Malavasi , Georgy Sofronov , Pavel V. Shevchenko , Stefan Trück , Jiwook Jang

Metrics and frameworks to quantifiably assess security measures have arisen from needs of three distinct research communities - statistical measures from the intrusion detection and prevention literature, evaluation of cyber exercises,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Michael D. Iannacone , Robert A. Bridges

Risk assessment is a major challenge for supply chain managers, as it potentially affects business factors such as service costs, supplier competition and customer expectations. The increasing interconnectivity between organisations has put…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-27 Alberto Redondo , Alberto Torres-Barrán , David Ríos Insua , Jordi Domingo

Cyber assurance, which is the ability to operate under the onslaught of cyber attacks and other unexpected events, is essential for organizations facing inundating security threats on a daily basis. Organizations usually employ multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Nan Sun , Chang-Tsun Li , Hin Chan , Md Zahidul Islam , Md Rafiqul Islam , Warren Armstrong

Motivated by the developments in cyber risk treatment in the finance industry, we propose a general framework of cyber bond, whose main purpose is to insure (compensate) losses of a cyber attack. Based on a database of publicly available…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-11-18 Oleg Kolesnikov , Alexander Markov , Daulet Smagulov , Sergejs Solovjovs

It is very challenging to predict the cost of a cyber incident owing to the complex nature of cyber risk. However, it is inevitable for insurance companies who offer cyber insurance policies. The time to identifying an incident and the time…

Applications · Statistics 2022-09-27 Maochao Xu , Quynh Nhu Nguyen

In this study an exploration of insurance risk transfer is undertaken for the cyber insurance industry in the United States of America, based on the leading industry dataset of cyber events provided by Advisen. We seek to address two core…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-03-16 Matteo Malavasi , Gareth W. Peters , Pavel V. Shevchenko , Stefan Trück , Jiwook Jang , Georgy Sofronov

Proper quantification of predictive uncertainty is essential for the use of machine learning in safety-critical applications. Various uncertainty measures have been proposed for this purpose, typically claiming superiority over other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Paul Hofman , Yusuf Sale , Eyke Hüllermeier