The G7 Cyber Expert Group completed a 2026 cross-border cyber exercise, adopting a long-term strategy to enhance cyber resilience and coordination among financial authorities.
Why it matters. G7 financial authorities are improving their preparedness for cyber incidents, which could reduce potential disruptions across global financial systems.
The G7 Cyber Expert Group (CEG) successfully concluded its 2026 Cross-border coordination exercise (CBCE) on May 18, 2026. This exercise demonstrates the Group’s ongoing commitment to strengthening cyber resilience across the G7 financial sector. A long-term exercise strategy has now been adopted to increase the frequency and consistency of these simulations, thereby enhancing preparedness across…
Building on the success of the 2024 CBCE exercise, which aimed to strengthen the G7 financial authorities’ capacity to coordinate and communicate effectively in response to a major cross-border cyber incident affecting the financial sector, this year’s sessions tested key improvements identified through previous simulations and workshops focused on incident response, recovery, and crisis communic…
Through these exercises, the G7 Cyber Expert Group seeks to reinforce the financial sector’s capacity to withstand cyber threats and reduce potential disruptions across G7 jurisdictions.
Its mission is to enhance the cyber resilience of the financial sector by fostering preparedness, establishing a shared understanding of the threat landscape, and promoting unified approaches to risk mitigation.
This exercise demonstrates the Group’s ongoing commitment to strengthening cyber resilience across the G7 financial sector.
This initiative enables financial authorities to further align and integrate the various operational and strategic components required for an effective response to cyber incidents.
To enhance coordination among G7 financial authorities, the exercise simulated a large-scale cyber-attack across all G7 jurisdictions.
