Cyber & Privacy Innovation Institute

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PwC’s Cyber & Privacy Innovation Institute is your place to access real-time insights on key business priorities around cybersecurity, privacy, and forensics. The Institute brings together the collective experience of cyber professionals and subject matter specialists through executive research and perspectives on trends.

Our latest thought leadership

PwC’s 2023 US Risk Perspectives Survey reflects the views of 300+ risk and business executives from various industries in the United States.

As businesses experience disruption, how they respond can determine their ability to recover and emerge stronger. In each episode of our podcast series, PwC specialists discuss the challenges and opportunities facing business leaders in today’s environment of global uncertainty.

Healthcare providers face a host of new and ongoing challenges in 2023. Amid these daunting challenges lies opportunity.

The next generation of capital requirements. A closer look at expected US banking regulatory changes in 2023 and beyond.

Corporate monitorship can be intrusive and costly. Here's how to avoid, limit or at least operate more effectively under a monitor.

What is generative AI? What can it do for your business? PwC’s AI experience and investments can help businesses put GenAI to work and drive ROI.

Organizations can take proactive steps to increase the costs of data scraping while decreasing the value of scraped data, enforce actions against scraping actors, and team with third parties to combat scraping.

CEO + Board summary on developing trends in the cyber threat landscape, and what these findings mean for 2023.

The latest strategy+business digital issue explores how companies can change the game by viewing the current risk landscape through a new lens.

Strategy signals shift of liability for cyber failures to software companies, potential for more regulation and whole-of-government disruption, and campaigns to thwart malicious actors.

Don’t wait until you are a victim to prepare for a ransomware attack. It’s critical to ask management questions now and understand how your board fits into the company’s overall response strategy.

Risk isn't about responding to change. It's about changing the way we see. Shifting our perspective. Considering different angles. To anticipate, be agile and build resilience.

NY State Department of Financial Services has proposed several amendments to its “Part 500” cybersecurity reg.

How to prepare for the potential impact on your company

Our latest PwC Pulse Survey shows that risk executives struggle to keep up

Findings from the 2023 Global Digital Trust Insights

Robust and active risk management oversight at the board level is more important now than ever before.

Check out what's top of mind for risk executives from PwC’s Pulse Survey

How are the OEMs and their suppliers approaching the development of Cyber Security Management System?

How are the OEMs and their suppliers approaching the development of Cyber Security Management System?

What the C-suite and boards need to know and act upon

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Use this six-step approach to help you operationalize your privacy and data protection programs.

How SOC reports can help assess vendor risk management in third-party relationships — and beyond.

Embracing risk in the face of disruption.

What energy and utilities can do to tackle top cyber challenges.

How companies can adjust their enterprise risk management approach to respond to current geopolitical crises.

What defense contractors need to know about compliance with CMMC 2.0.

High level impacts and timelines of the newest version of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

How CISOs and boards can prepare for the new era of cyber transparency.

What is Biden’s new Cyber Incident Reporting law, why is it a great step forward, and how can it go further?

What boards and CEOs should know and act upon.

What CEOs and boards should be discussing with their CISOs and CIOs.

Our research reveals four areas of focus for CEOs looking to change the game.

To help drive growth and innovation, successful companies put privacy front and center of their business.

Our latest survey features the C-suite guide to simplifying cyber readiness.­

Enhancing your cybersecurity to stay ahead of threats is critical.

Cybersecurity is not optional — that’s a message from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Cybersecurity regulators are cracking down on the financial sector.

Our latest survey reflects the views of 332 US CISOs and Heads of IT on how to be cyber ready for the future.

Who owns cloud? It's not just the CIO. How to team and deliver ROI.

Four things you need to know about the new dangers of ransomware and what you should do to defend yourself.

President Biden released the Executive Order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity.

The partnership of leadership and operations.

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What’s next in cyber: video podcast and webcast series

Hear from CISOs, cybersecurity, privacy and forensics subject matter specialists discuss relevant issues and best practices.

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Transforming Risk into Confidence

This podcast series is focused on helping you to assure confidence in the controls, systems and processes that drive your business forward. The series features PwC specialists that work with clients every day to address today’s most compelling topics and challenges related to digital risk and transformation, internal audit, risk management, compliance, trust and transparency and ESG.

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Our community

Industry associations and the academic community

Through our collaboration with universities and participation in select industry associations, we can get a better understanding of the markets’ business needs and issues as it relates to cybersecurity and privacy.­

  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC)
  • National Association of Manufacturers
  • National Retail Federation (NRF)
  • Northeastern University

Our alliances and ecosystems

We have a network of alliances that complement PwC’s cybersecurity and privacy strategy and allow us to deliver multi-competency programs to help solve critical business issues.

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Oracle
CyberArk Netskope Palo Alto Networks
ForgeRock Okta Tanium
Sailpoint    

Global research firms

Our program develops and expands relationships with leading enterprise risk analysts and industry groups studying the current and future state of enterprise risk through the specific lens of cybersecurity, privacy and consumer protection, fraud and other financial crimes.

PwC is a leader in over 100 analyst reports. In just 2019 and through the first quarter of 2020, PwC has earned a leading position as a provider of cybersecurity and strategic risk management services to clients in the following ALM Intelligence, Forrester Research, IDC, and Gartner reports:

Forrester Global Information Security Consulting
Forrester European Cybersecurity Consulting
Forrester Asia Pacific Cybersecurity Consulting
ALM Global Cybersecurity Consulting
IDC Global Risk Consulting In the Digital Age
ALM Strategic Risk Consulting
Gartner Data and Analytics Consulting

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