Security delivered – pragmatic and innovative solutions

For the past few years, IT and security professionals have talked about information technology – and particularly information security – as a "business enabler." However, IT and security organisations are now on the front lines for compliance efforts and are now being asked to play two pivotal roles:

• to provide a secure, well-controlled IT environment to improve business performance and;
• to assist the organisation in strategically and tactically addressing its governance, risk and compliance requirements.

Therefore in the future IT and Security will need to be seen as not only as an enabler of business but a "compliance enabler" too.

What happens if this issue remains unaddressed?

IT Security is not an option for an organisation, it has to be done right in order to address pressing business risks as well as the regulatory requirements. Getting it wrong could cost an organisation a significant amount of time, money, and reputation.

How can we help solve this issue?

Our core strength in delivering pragmatic enterprise security for our clients comes from a combination of:

• the ability to bring together a diverse range of skills and experiences from across our firm;
• the ability to provide truly independent trusted advice; and
• the ability to leverage our global skill base to deploy consistent capabilities in 120 different countries.

Please click here to see our business agenda for security.

Information Risk Assurance

When taking an Information Risk Assurance approach our teams work with clients to evaluate their risk profile and assure that they are approaching security in the most effective and appropriate way. Enabling them to achieve their business, compliance and risk management objectives.

Security Strategy & Governance

Our experience in the Security Strategy and Governance space has long since established PwC as a thought leader in information security. Using our proven methodologies, tools and programme accelerators we are able to rapidly deliver security strategy and governance models that are ‘cut to fit’ to clients to make it clients business not ‘forced to fit’ as is so often the case.

Infrastructure, Networks & Applications

When it comes to the core technology security challenges our Infrastructure, Network and Applications security centre of excellence really knows how to deliver. Encompassing experience across all the layers of the security environment our teams are able to provide advice that addresses the detailed technical and industry sector challenges that help our clients to align security to their broader technology and business control environment.

Identity & Access Management

Our Identity & Access Management Centre of excellence has been delivering process and technology improvement solutions for our clients for over five years. Our team continues to innovate and leverage its vast knowledge of delivered solutions, vendor technologies and alignment to key governance, regulatory and control issues.

Legal, Privacy & Forensics

Our experts in PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal LLP work closely with clients to deliver customised legal solutions balancing the legal risks and practical requirements around information security. This can range from ad hoc data protection and confidentiality advice to conducting international privacy audits. In addition our forensic technology specialists are trained in the acquisition/analysis of data and can also provide expert witness services in legal cases for clients