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Cyber Lexicon Includes WOCCU Recommended Changes

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a Cyber Lexicon intended to support the work of the FSB, standard-setting bodies, authorities and private sector participants to address financial sector cyber resilience. 

WOCCU recently supported the initiative to develop a Cyber Lexicon to address cyber security and cyber resilience in the financial sector, but made numerous suggestions, many of which were included in today’s issuance.  Of note was the WOCCU recommended approach taken by the FSB to focus the scope of the lexicon on core terms and exclude overly technical terms as well as general business and regulatory terms to avoid confusion among industries.

The lexicon as adopted can prove to be useful to support work in the following areas:

  • Cross-sector common understanding of relevant cyber security and cyber resilience terminology;
  • Work to assess and monitor financial stability risks of cyber risk scenarios;
  • Information sharing as appropriate; and
  • Work by the FSB and/or standard-setting bodies to provide guidance related to cyber security and cyber resilience, including identifying effective practices.

The lexicon will be delivered to the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Buenos Aires later this month and can be viewed here.

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