Recital 77 Culture of risk management

Responsibility for ensuring the security of network and information systemmeans:an electronic communications network as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972;any device or group of interconnected or related devices, one or more of which, pursuant to a programme, carry out automatic processing of digital data; ordigital data stored, processed, retrieved or transmitted by elements covered under points (a) and (b) for the purposes of their operation, use, protection and maintenance; lies, to a great extent, with essential and important entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations;. A culture of riskmeans the potential for loss or disruption caused by an incident and is to be expressed as a combination of the magnitude of such loss or disruption and the likelihood of occurrence of the incident; management, involving riskmeans the potential for loss or disruption caused by an incident and is to be expressed as a combination of the magnitude of such loss or disruption and the likelihood of occurrence of the incident; assessments and the implementation of cybersecuritymeans cybersecurity as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; risk-management measures appropriate to the risksmeans the potential for loss or disruption caused by an incident and is to be expressed as a combination of the magnitude of such loss or disruption and the likelihood of occurrence of the incident; faced, should be promoted and developed.