Prepare for disruption and respond with confidence, resilience, and speed. We help you prepare for what’s next, protect what matters most, and recover faster when disruption hits.
Cyber Defense
Overview
Cyber disruption is now a business certainty. PwC Cyber Defense helps organizations build resilience through preparation, response, and recovery. We offer readiness assessments, offensive security, crisis simulations, incident response, and security operations transformation to protect critical services and enable confident decision-making—containing disruption, speeding recovery, and ensuring business continuity.
Market trends
Capabilities
- Enterprise resilience
- Offensive security
- Incident response
- Security operations
- Threat management
Enterprise resilience
Disruption tests whether critical services can remain within defined impact tolerances. We design and run integrated resilience programs that bring together operational resilience, business continuity, IT disaster recovery, crisis management, and regulatory response. Through aligned operating models, clear governance, and repeatable testing, we help build the coordination and discipline needed to sustain essential services and make effective decisions under stress.
Offensive security
Controls only matter if they hold up under real attack paths. We test earlier and more often by simulating adversaries across people, process, and technology through penetration testing, application security testing, red and purple teaming, vulnerability assessments, and AI red teaming. This makes weaknesses visible and actionable, focusing remediation on the exposures that matter most.
Incident response
When incidents happen, the speed and coordination of response and recovery directly shape business impact. We work with your teams to build preparedness and deliver incident response programs that include policies and playbooks, tabletop exercises and simulations, and response retainers. When disruption hits, we provide surge capacity, coordination, and technical depth to help you contain, recover, and maintain continuity under stress. This includes 24x7 incident response, immediate breach triage, crisis management and communications, breach analytics and notification readiness, and regulatory response and remediation, including ransomware. We bridge crisis management, technical remediation, and business recovery—so your organization can return to viable operations.
Security operations
Modern security operations integrate intelligence, data, and response to operate at scale. We modernize security operations through cyber defense strategy and design, SIEM/SOAR/AI stand‑up or uplift, threat detection use‑case review and development, and full transformation across people, process, and technology. The result is a more unified detection‑to‑response workflow—so you can detect sooner and respond with greater speed and consistency.
Threat management
Next‑generation threat management turns intelligence into action through detection and hunting. We deliver threat intelligence, threat modelling, threat hunting, threat detection, and insider threat capabilities, using AI‑assisted triage and proactive hunting to surface what matters most. We wire those insights directly into detections and hunts, so you can identify threats sooner and respond faster across the enterprise.
Use cases
As cyber threats intensify, many organizations recognize gaps in preparedness but lack clarity on how disruption would impact critical services. We help assess readiness, test response plans, and identify where resilience breaks down—so you can act decisively when disruption occurs and reduce uncertainty under pressure.
When a cyber incident escalates, technical response alone is not enough. Business continuity, leadership coordination, and regulatory considerations quickly come into play. We support rapid containment and recovery by aligning technical, operational, and regulatory efforts—so you can restore critical services and maintain control during a crisis.
Delayed detection, fragmented tools, and alert fatigue can prevent teams from responding effectively to real threats. We help organizations translate signals into action and streamline response workflows—so you can detect threats earlier and respond with speed and consistency.
Threat intelligence often exists but is not fully embedded into day‑to‑day detection and response. We help operationalize intelligence through focused detection and proactive hunting—so you can identify active and emerging threats sooner and respond with greater precision.
Controls that look effective on paper may fail under realistic attack paths. Many organizations need assurance before an incident exposes those weaknesses. We test controls against real‑world threat scenarios—so you can uncover gaps early and prioritize remediation where it reduces risk most.
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