Regulatory Alerts2026-06-02
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Strengthening Cyber Resilience amid Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Cyber Threats
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) directs Authorized Institutions to urgently review and uplift their cyber defense controls, incident response capabilities, and data resilience measures in response to escalating risks from frontier Artificial Intelligence models. Regulated entities must assess the sufficiency of existing multi-layered defenses against accelerated zero-day attacks, enhance third-party supply chain security, and ensure robust recovery processes for increasingly probable breach scenarios. Concurrently, the HKMA is establishing a Task Force on AI-Driven Cyber Risks and developing a Cyber Resilience Testing Framework to systematically stress-test institutional response capabilities while supporting the implementation of the Protection of Critical Infrastructures Ordinance.