Cyber Risk Analysis and Cyber Security

Abstract

The dissertation will at first analyze the major trends and technologies adopted in the business context nowadays, analysing the main advantages and disavantages with a focus on the cyber risks that emerge in adopting such technologies. In additon, will be discuss how these risks really impact a corporation, analyzing the main economìc consequences that cyber-attacks and data breaches have. Moreover, in the dissertation will be introduced some key controls to minimize the possibility of a data breach, also presenting the NIST Framework as tool to be adopted in order to increase the overall cybersecurity of an organization. To conclude, a litterature review on how the cyber risks can be evaluate in the business field will be presented, also analysing some issues that companies face in this evaluation.