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Cyberattacks ‘more worrisome than all the other stuff’: Bank of Canada governor
OTTAWA — Of all the economic fears that could keep Stephen Poloz awake at night, the threat of a cyberattack is perhaps the one that troubles him the most.
The Bank of Canada governor can talk all day about household debt and how a global recession would slow down the economy, push up unemployment and make mortgage payments difficult for some people, and never lose faith that the system would be resilient enough to prevail, he said in an interview.
But a cyberattack against the financial system? Poloz admits he’s unsure what the fallout would be and he struggles to picture what such an event might look like.
For a policy-maker who carefully studies stacks of data before making a decision, the many unknowns surrounding the rapidly evolving world of cyberthreats are disconcerting, to say the least.