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Our Approach to Cybersecurity and Digital Risk

Our approach combines strategic alignment and execution, giving leaders clear pathways to both act today and adapt tomorrow. We help organizations define their risk tolerance, focus investments where they matter most, and embed capabilities for continual improvement. Working side by side, our IT and cyber risk consulting experts ensure that security becomes a cornerstone of digital transformation by integrating cyber risk management seamlessly into operations.

Our work centers on four imperatives:

  • Cyber Strategy & Transformation. We synchronize business ambition with cybersecurity strategy, tailoring risk-based roadmaps that maximize ROI and deliver measurable outcomes. Cyber becomes a quantifiable business issue, empowering leaders to prioritize investments and defend enterprise value.
  • Data-Driven Risk & Security Management. Using adaptive analytics, we elevate detection and response across operations, physical security, and fraud. This intelligence-driven digital risk management approach enables more strategic, resilient operations.
  • Crisis Preparedness & Business Recovery. We design governance, processes, and playbooks so that organizations can withstand and recover from disruption. From board oversight to frontline capability, our cyber risk strategy and resilience frameworks safeguard trust and continuity.
  • Secure by Design & Secure AI. From zero-trust architectures to resilient cloud and AI deployment at scale, we embed security into every layer of the tech stack. Our IT risk consultants ensure that innovation is secure, compliant, and a driver of agility.

Our Clients’ Success in Cybersecurity and Cyber Risk

Our cybersecurity consulting team combines business expertise, a strategic mindset, and deep knowledge of cyber risk quantification strategy and technologies.

15%
reduction in cybersecurity spending
Many companies face a common dilemma: their cybersecurity spending often isn’t as efficient or effective as it could be. Through cyber risk analytics—including our Cyber Doppler tool—we helped our client, a leading global bank, calculate its risk exposure for different scenarios and business units and understand the impact of various cyber activities. This let the company optimize its cyber portfolio and reallocate spending to activities that had the highest impact on risk exposure. The bank reduced its cyber projects by 35% while eliminating or reallocating 15% of its cybersecurity spending—all while improving the organization’s cyber readiness.
30
cyber defense projects steered
Hoping to expand its footprint in health care, our client knew it had to first shore up its cyber defenses. A recent malware attack had caused a significant financial loss, and vulnerabilities remained. Drawing on our technical and project management expertise, we conducted multiple cybersecurity assessments and identified both weak points and costly redundancies. We prioritized areas to focus on and steered more than 30 cyber defense projects for the client. Just as importantly, we developed long- and short-term roadmaps so the company could enhance its cyber capabilities quickly—and continually improve.

Our Center of Excellence in Cyber Strategy

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Our Center for Leadership in Cyber Strategy is a dedicated resource that works with boards and executive teams to shape actionable, high-impact cyber strategies. By leveraging BCG’s global network of cybersecurity experts, business strategists, and technologists, we bring deep expertise to enterprise transformation, cyber economics, and strategic risk management across sectors and geographies—ensuring that our clients can lead with confidence in today’s constantly evolving digital landscape.

The Latest on Cyber Risk Strategy

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  • Cybersecurity a Top Concern for Organizations
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    Leading companies are bolstering their cybersecurity by defining risks, prioritizing assets, and running coordinated response exercises in the face of cyber attacks.
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    Cyber expert Nadine Moore talks about three steps insurers should take to stay competitive in the face of growing cyber threats.
  • A Unified Approach to Cybersecurity
    A Unified Approach to Cybersecurity
    A Unified Approach to Cybersecurity
    BCG Platinion's Nadya Bartol explains how Synchronicity changes the way we think about cybersecurity by allowing business, IT, and cyber to work together to improve business outcomes, enable growth, and provide a resilient future.

Our Cybersecurity and Digital Risk Partnerships

Press Release
February 29, 2024
BCG is teaming with Mandiant (part of Google Cloud)—a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence, and incident response services—to help organizations improve cybersecurity resilience against the ever-evolving threat landscape.
Press Release
October 9, 2024
Thales and BCG’s strategic partnership provide companies with the combined support of Thales’s world-leading tech capabilities and BCG’s global expertise in business strategy and transformation.

Explore Our Insights on Cyber Risk Strategy

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October 24, 2025
AI agents come with risk. BCG’s FAST framework helps companies identify the capabilities required for their safe and reliable deployment.
Thriving with AI in the New Risk Landscape
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October 22, 2025
Thriving with AI in the New Risk Landscape
In a world of constant disruption, AI transforms risk from challenge to competitive advantage. Discover how to harness AI to protect your business, steer strategic decisions, and grow resilience.
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Current cryptographic standards could soon be vulnerable to attacks from quantum computers. To protect critical systems, companies should begin the transition to post-quantum cryptography now.
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The risks for governments are already high. But the rapid growth of AI has raised the stakes even further by giving attackers new, faster, and more effective hacking tools.
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Companies that adopt risk-based strategies against cyberattacks outperform because they protect what matters most.
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A new wave of AI-powered attacks is pushing companies to adjust their cybersecurity spending, according to a new survey of chief information security officers worldwide.
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Meet Our Cyber Risk Consulting Leaders

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Vanessa Lyon

Managing Director & Senior Partner
New York

Or Klier

Managing Director & Partner
Tel Aviv

Shoaib Yousuf

Managing Director & Partner
Dubai

Nadya Bartol

Managing Director, BCG Platinion
Washington, DC

Biljana Bajic-Bizumic

Managing Director & Partner
Zurich

Moti BenMocha

Partner and Director, Cybersecurity & IT Risk Management
Tel Aviv

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