Basel Using AI to Assess Cyber Security


On Apr. 30, Basel unveiled Project Raven using AI to assess security.


  • Basel announced launch of Project Raven by its Innovation Hub Nordic Center.
  • It aims to create a new solution to help authorities comprehensively assess cyber security and resilience maturity readiness of their countries' financial systems.
  • Background
  • Current financial center ecosystems are complex and interconnected across borders.
  • Cyber threats against them and their critical 3rd-party suppliers represent a serious and constantly evolving threat to soundness, stability of institutions and systems.
  • Project Raven
  • As part of responsibility to safeguard financial stability, central banks have crucial role in overseeing cyber security/operational resilience frameworks of financial institutions and financial market infrastructures, and must also assess their own practices.
  • As threats continue to grow and evolve, they increase demand for timely data and require regular exchange of information, best practices, public-private collaboration.
  • Essential to give holistic view of cyber maturity and ensure readiness for incidents.
  • With Project Raven's solution, central banks/regulatory authorities will be able to use AI to enable fast, easy access to range of complex information, standards, guidelines.
  • Collect and analyze cyber security and resilience data to get holistic view of maturity and readiness of the financial sector and identify areas of action and trends over time.
  • Enable efficiency via intelligent completion of reporting requirements and data reuse.

Regulators Basel
Entity Types Bank; BS; Depo; Exch; Ins; Inv Co; MSB
Reference PR 4/30/2024; Fintech
Functions Compliance; Cyber; Financial; Market Conduct; Operations; Outsourcing; Product Administration; Reporting; Risk; Technology; Treasury
Countries Global Regulator; Cross-Border
Category Global Standards Body
State
Products AI; Banking; Fund Mgt; Insurance; Securities
Regions Global
Rule Type Guidance
Rule Date 4/30/2024
Effective Date 4/30/2024
Rule Id 210562
Linked to N/A
Reg. Last Update 4/30/2024
Report Section International

Last substantive update on 05/03/2024