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.
Our Approach to Cybersecurity and Digital Risk
It is now critical to reframe cybersecurity, not as a technical function, but as a strategic imperative and proactive boardroom priority. That’s why the Center for Leadership in Cyber Strategy equips business and technology leaders to understand and act together to treat digital risk as a core business and leadership issue. Through a business-first, impact-driven approach, we align cyber, risk, and enterprise strategy to unlock a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Our approach includes:
- Strategy: We help leaders synchronize business ambition and cyber strategy, quantifying cyber and digital risk in economic terms to enable better decisions and clearer alignment with enterprise strategy. Cyber becomes a measurable business issue, empowering leaders to prioritize investments and defend enterprise value.
- Cross-Functional Teaming: Our model brings together technical and business stakeholders, embedding cyber thinking in a centralized function to strengthen defenses, streamline security efforts, and help organizations get more from their investments.
- Value Focus: We prepare organizations not only to avoid disruption, but withstand it. From boardroom governance to frontline capability, we help develop the necessary structures, mindsets, and cyber risk strategies to manage increased digital risk and recover from a cyberattack —to become stronger and lead with confidence in today’s dynamic digital world.
- Tech Resilience: From cloud transformation to AI adoption, we embed risk management in the foundations of digital innovation. We set a clear North Star, AI-specific cybersecurity guardrails, and a secure, compliant architecture from day one. The result? Cyber resilience as a driver of strategic agility and sustainable advantage.
Our Clients’ Success in Cyber Risk Strategy
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 we steered more than 30 cyber defense projects for the client. Just as importantly, we developed long- and short-term roadmaps so that the company could enhance its cyber capabilities quickly—and continually improve.
The Center for Leadership in Cyber Strategy
Our Solutions for Cybersecurity and Digital Risk
Cyber Strategy & Transformation
Tailor risk-based cybersecurity strategies to align with business goals and maximize ROI, for secure digital transformations with measurable outcomes
Cyber Strategy & Transformation
Data Driven Risk & Security Management
Elevate detection/response skills (physical security, operations, fraud) to enable strategic operations through adaptive, intelligence-driven risk management
Data Driven Risk & Security Management
Crisis Preparedness & Business Recovery
Deliver end-to-end operational resilience and crisis orchestration to ensure your business can withstand and recover from disruptions.
Crisis Preparedness & Business Recovery
Secure by Design & Secure AI
Embed security in every layer of the tech stack from AI deployment at scale to zero-trust architectures and resilient cloud operations.
Secure by Design & Secure AI
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
Article
May 14, 2025
Businesses rely on technology for virtually everything they do. But digital innovations, such as AI, often outpace the measures companies take to safeguard their systems.
Article
October 15, 2024
Cyber threats are increasing in severity, frequency, and creativity. New research shows how CISOs are shoring up their defenses—and where they need to redouble their efforts.
Article
October 2, 2024
By embracing future-ready workforce practices to close the cybersecurity talent gap, employers will be in a better position to capitalize on opportunities and address emerging threats.
Article
July 22, 2024
Tougher regulatory oversight and the soaring costs of major data breaches are elevating cybersecurity to a higher strategic priority for corporate leaders and boards.
Article
August 28, 2023
Many companies today are tightening or even reducing cybersecurity budgets. Implementing a comprehensive cost resilience process can maintain—and often improve—an organization’s risk profile.
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