A possible holistic framework to manage ICT third-party risk in the age of cyber risk

Autor: Andrea Giacchero, Jacopo Moretti
Jazyk: English<br />Italian
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Risk Management Magazine, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 30-42 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2612-3665
2724-2153
DOI: 10.47473/2020rmm0082
Popis: Third-party risk for external ICT services, which concerns both the outsourced services and the third-party products, is a crucial issue for a financial institution, because a cyber attack on a vendor can be a threat for the data of its customers. For this reason, financial institutions should adopt a holistic risk management framework to stress the effectiveness of the mitigating actions even when they engage a third-party provider. Risk analysis of external ICT services is necessary to prepare proper mitigation plans that provide enough resources allocation. This paper proposes a possible management framework whose aim is providing indications on security measures and controls to implement against the possible sources of ICT third-party risk, and defining a proper internal process that a financial institution should adopt. In this context, the framework also embodies a model to pick the best vendor among those that a financial institution could choose for an ICT service, which is based on a risk assessment technique focused on the three information security dimensions (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) and on the Borda method.
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