3rd Annual Conference to Address Cyber Risk Measurement and Action in the Financial Sector (CRFS)

Published on 2025-10-04

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will convene their third conference on measuring and tracking cyber risk on Oct 7-8 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The event will bring together participants from industry, government, and academia to examine the application of cyber risk metrics for the financial sector. Session topics will include threat intelligence, emerging technology risks, and global policy.

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AI Strategy in Developing Economies

Published on 2025-10-04

In this new working paper, we re-evaluate the standard “factors of production”—Land, Labor, Capital, and Entrepreneurship—through an AI-specific lens to identify strategic areas for AI investment in developing countries.

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Rapidly scoring the severity of cybersecurity incidents

Published on 2025-07-21

This research creates a scoring mechanism to quantify the severity of a cybersecurity incident. The Cybersecurity Incident Severity Scale (CISS) is used to generate a preliminary score on a scale of 1 to 10, based on the best available information at that time.

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MIT CSAIL AI Action Plan Recommendations – 2025

Published on 2025-04-10

Note: IPRI was glad to work with CSAIL director Daniela Rus and CSAIL researchers (PIs)…

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Beyond Dark Patterns – A Concept-Based Framework for Ethical Software Design

Published on 2024-05-11

Current dark pattern research tells designers what not to do, but how do they know…

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Irene Tenison – 2024/2025 Takeda Fellow

Published on 2024-05-08

IPRI’s Irene Tenison was selected by MIT’s School of Engineering as aTakeda Fellow for the…

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Accountable systems – The OTrace Protocol

Published on 2024-04-25

MIT Future of Data 25 April 2024: Future of Data Initiative releases early version of…

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“Mind the Gap”: Securely modeling cyber risk based on security deviations from a peer group (2024)

Published on 2024-04-04

There are two strategic and longstanding questions about cyber risk that organizations largely have been…

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MIT/FRS Annual Conference on Measuring Cyber Risk (2024)

Published on 2024-01-17

On January 17-18, 2024, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Federal Reserve Bank of…

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CLPC 2023: Municipal Cyber Risk Modeling Using Cryptographic Computing

Published on 2023-09-29

Municipalities are vulnerable to cyberattacks with devastating consequences, but they lack key information to evaluate…

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