Digital Security Risk Management for Economic and Social Prosperity

OECD Recommendation and Companion Document

This OECD Recommendation and its Companion Document provide guidance for all stakeholders on the economic and social prosperity dimensions of digital security risk. In an economic context in which the digital environment has become essential to growth and prosperity, well-being and inclusiveness, digital security risk should be considered with respect to the broader economic and social perspective, and its management integrated in stakeholders’ decision making processes.

Published on October 01, 2015Also available in: French

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Recommendation of the Council on Digital Security Risk Management for Economic and Social Prosperity	Read PDF
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REVISION PROCESS
Over three decades, the OECD has played an important role in promoting policies and instruments for innovation and trust in the digital economy. The adoption of this Recommendation by the OECD Council on 17 September 2015 is the successful result of a initiated in 2012 by the OECD Working Party on Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy (SPDE) to review the 2002 Recommendation of the Council concerning Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks: Towards a Culture of Security. (Security Guidelines)

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Digital Security Risk Management for Economic and Social Prosperity

OECD Recommendation and Companion Document

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