Nevertheless, financial institutions can expect to remain a target of cyberattacks. I believe there is a need for heightened attention to managing this risk. This includes monitoring warnings carefully, acting quickly to apply patches in a controlled environment, and taking other steps necessary to preclude any damage to information systems.
The push towards digitalisation during the COVID (Coronavirus Disease)-19 pandemic could bolster future productivity growth. Corporate surveys support this preliminary assessment. [16] However, it is mainly large enterprises that seem to have achieved productivity gains. According to the survey of firms, digitalisation hardly picked up speed at all in smaller, less productive enterprises. There is, therefore, a digital divide running through the corporate landscape.