Financial Cyber and Operational Resilience
The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)
The research behind Financial Cyber and Operational Resilience: the questions it asks, the methods it uses and how evidence is reviewed before it is published.
Operational resilience · Professional research
unit · cadence · label
| Important business services | services | annual | OFFICIAL | SP-0129 |
| Services within impact tolerance in testing | of services | annual | ASSESSED | SP-1202 |
| Mapped dependencies | resources | annual | DERIVED | SP-4295 |
| Critical third parties | suppliers | annual | OFFICIAL | SP-5139 |
| Severe-but-plausible scenarios tested | scenarios | annual | OFFICIAL | SP-4574 |
Financial Cyber and Operational Resilience · Evidence registerEvidence register, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
Financial Cyber and Operational Resilience research is the evidence work behind the platform: questions such as critical business services and financial cyber threats, answered with cybersecurity and cryptography as well as reliability and resilience engineering and reviewed before publication. Every result carries an evidence label, from observed to modelled or expert judgement, and missing data is shown as missing, never filled silently.
Fig.How a finding is reviewed before it is published. Design, not a record.
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Identifying service continuity outcomes.
Attack paths and control evidence.
Concentration and resilience.
Response roles, escalation and recovery.
Vendor risks and software dependencies.
Confidentiality, integrity and continuity.
| Question | Evidence used |
|---|---|
| Where is concentration? | dependency maps and incident data |
| How to measure resilience? | data-centre geography |
| How do cyber losses correlate? | dependency networks |
Financial Cyber and Operational Resilience research concerns cyber and operational dependency. It is written for CISOs and operational resilience leads and cyber supervisors, carries an evidence label on every value and never performs any institution's own analysis of vendor rankings.
Results are labelled as observed, officially reported, estimated, modelled, forecast, scenario or expert judgement. Missing data is shown as missing, never filled silently.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Research integrity | Conduct of research in line with principles of reliability, honesty, respect and accountability, as the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity sets them out. |
| Evidence label | A tag naming the kind of evidence, such as observed or modelled, that should survive every summary. |
| Reproducibility | Obtaining consistent results using the same data and analysis code as the original study. |
| Ransomware | Malicious software that encrypts or locks data and demands payment for its release. |
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