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Viruses, contagion and tail risk

Oliver Brew, Head of Client Success, examines the lessons that can be learnt and applied to cyber risk modeling from understanding how pandemic models have evolved.

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  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically influenced every aspect of how we live, work and think about systemic risk.
  • Cyber risk models aim to understand and articulate the systemic risk potential arising from the increasingly hyper-connected technological world in which we operate both in our economy and wider society.
  • As the pandemic continues, with all the differences between computer and human viruses, parallels emerge in how pandemics are modeled, the methodologies employed, and the data challenges which exist.
  • This paper seeks to compare and contrast pandemic modeling and cyber risk modeling methodologies, and understand common lessons learned in how to represent complex, rapidly-changing and challenging risks.