## Cyber Risk Supervision - Path to Operational Resilience (CRS)

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Cyber Risk Supervision - Path to Operational Resilience (CRS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2025/crsce25-03)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CE 25.03
- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Dates: January 12-16, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Arabic
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Target audience and qualifications
- Target audience:
  - Financial sector supervisors and regulators with responsibilities that include cyber risk regulation and / or supervision at central banks and agencies charged with supervising financial institutions.
- Qualifications:
  - Participants are expected to have at least one-year of experience in general regulation and supervision of financial institutions.

### Course description — scope and pedagogy
- Presented by the Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
- Level: introductory to intermediate training on cyber risk regulation and supervision for non-specialist financial sector supervisors.
- Core coverage:
  - Reviews recent trends in the technology adopted by supervised entities, the evolving threat landscape and their implications for cyber risk and financial stability.
  - Outlines the key elements of cyber risk regulations.
  - Discusses supervisory approaches and tools.
  - Presents key cybersecurity concepts, covering governance, risk assessment, and information sharing, based on international standards and best practices.
- Teaching methods:
  - Instructional sessions combined with interactive components, including group exercises, case studies and information sharing discussions.
- Practical orientation:
  - Sessions focus on providing practical lessons and tips that can be used by regulators and supervisors as part of their daily supervisory activities.

### Course objectives — expected participant competencies after completion
- Understand the basics of information technology solutions used in financial institutions, the cyber threat landscape, key characteristics of cyber risk and its place in the enterprise-wide risk management framework.
- Define and summarize the key components of cyber risk regulation and sound approaches to supervising cyber risk.
- Understand the financial stability implications of cyber risk and have an insight on ways to enhance the cyber resilience of the financial sector.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2025/crsce25-03_