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Chief financial officers rate hacking the top external risk in a recent survey, with good reason. High profile cybersecurity attacks dominated the news cycle in 2017, including the Equifax data breach, the NotPetya worm, and the breach of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar system, housing financial reports and other public company statements. Given the pervasiveness of cyber risks, we have partnered with BitSight Technologies to introduce factors derived from their Security Ratings that quantify cybersecurity risks to enhance stock and portfolio risk management.
BitSight captures company-specific cybersecurity risk through a proprietary process, providing quantifiable Security Ratings
We find BitSight Security Ratings are predictive of data breach events, and such events on average have a negative impact on excess stock price returns of 44 bps over the first 10 days from when a breach is identified
In addition to the normalized systematic BitSight Rating and their underlying related vectors that provide transparency, we construct 16 derived factors measuring changes in ratings and industry-relative positioning, among others
