Helping organizations navigate complex technology and cyber regulatory obligations and risk issues. Enabling our clients to meet regulatory obligations and board expectations.

Tech and Cyber Risk & Compliance (TCRC)

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Overview

Regulatory pressure reveals fragmented tech and cyber risk functions while executives and boards demand clearer cyber risk reporting and standardized methodologies. PwC Tech and Cyber Risk & Compliance help design and implement cyber and technology GRC programs that align regulatory requirements with enterprise risk objectives, combining regulatory insight with cybersecurity and technology risk expertise.


Market trends

60%

of business and tech leaders rank cyber risk investment among their top 3 priorities amid geopolitical uncertainty

Source https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/consulting/cybersecurity-data-tech-risk/library/global-digital-trust-insights.html
24%

of organizations are spending significantly more on proactive measures (e.g., monitoring, assessments, testing, controls) than reactive measures (incident response, fines, recovery)

Source https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/consulting/cybersecurity-data-tech-risk/library/global-digital-trust-insights.html
71%

of executives expect to undertake digital transformation initiatives over the next three years that require the support of Compliance

Source https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/risk-regulation/global-compliance-survey.html

Capabilities

Cyber and technology GRC program design

Build a governance foundation that aligns regulatory requirements with enterprise risk objectives. We design and implement cyber and technology governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs that help organizations reduce risk, demonstrate control effectiveness, and build trust with regulators and stakeholders. We integrate governance design, standardized risk assessment methods, and cross-functional coordination to deliver consistent, defensible outcomes.

Regulatory insight and industry specialization

Apply deep industry specialization and regulatory insight to address complex technology and cyber compliance obligations. We bring cross-industry cyber and technology risk expertise to measure risk posture, enable compliance, and improve visibility into technology and cyber risks for more informed oversight and decision-making.

Regulatory response and remediation

Respond to regulatory findings with faster, more disciplined resolution supported by better documentation and control practices. We help establish stronger compliance performance, clearer evidence, and more consistent results in regulatory reviews. Our accelerated remediation and issue closure approach delivers defensible risk narratives—clear, credible explanations of risk posture that stand up to scrutiny from regulators, auditors, and stakeholders.

AI-accelerated delivery

Accelerate your risk and compliance programs with AI-powered tools. We use AI tools and proprietary accelerators to speed delivery while applying deep regulatory insight and cross-industry cyber and technology experience. We help organizations strengthen controls, enhance transparency, and reduce regulatory risk—combining regulatory perspective with technical fluency to deliver solutions at scale.

Cross-functional coordination

Eliminate silos and align your security, IT, compliance, and audit teams. We build integrated compliance programs that establish stronger alignment across functions—reducing inconsistencies and duplication of effort. The result: enhanced visibility into technology and cyber risks for more informed oversight.


Use cases

When regulatory pressure exposes fragmented technology risk ownership and inconsistent compliance outcomes, leaders struggle to present a coherent view of risk and control performance. We unify governance and ways of working across the tech and cyber risk function and standardize how risk is assessed and reported—so you can demonstrate consistent outcomes and reduce regulatory risk.

When executives and boards push for clearer, more reliable technology and cyber risk reporting, teams often can’t produce useful insights from inconsistent inputs. We help improve the quality and consistency of risk reporting by strengthening governance and standardizing assessment and reporting practices—so you can provide leadership with higher-confidence risk insights to support oversight and decisions.

When different parts of the enterprise assess and document technology and cyber risk in different ways, it creates gaps, rework, and uneven defensibility during reviews. We help implement consistent, scalable methodologies for assessing, managing, and reporting technology and cyber risk—so you can reduce variability across teams and improve control effectiveness at scale.

When regulators and auditors challenge the rationale behind a risk rating or control conclusion, teams can struggle to substantiate decisions with clear evidence. We strengthen documentation, governance, and risk narratives to produce clear, credible explanations of risk posture that hold up to scrutiny—so you can respond confidently to regulator and audit questions.

When a regulatory review results in findings, remediation can stall due to unclear ownership, weak documentation, or inconsistent control practices. We apply a disciplined remediation and issue‑closure approach supported by better evidence and control practices—so you can close findings faster and achieve more consistent results in regulatory reviews.

When Internal Audit is expected to provide stronger coverage of technology and cyber risks, audit teams may not have the depth needed to evaluate technical control effectiveness and risk posture. We bring deep cyber expertise into Internal Audit and standardize how technology and cyber risk is assessed and reported—so you can expand audit coverage while meeting rising expectations for reliable risk insight.


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Aaron Shapiro

Partner, Cyber, Data, and Tech Risk, PwC US

Stephanie Hardt

Principal, PwC US

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