Cybersecurity Risk Management and Compliance Services

Cybersecurity Risk Management and Compliance is a comprehensive approach to establishing governance structures, policies, controls and accountability mechanisms needed to translate cyber risk into clear business decisions and measurable improvement.

It combines two critical dimensions:

• Risk management – Identifying, assessing and prioritizing cybersecurity risks across your organization, then implementing controls to reduce those risks to acceptable levels aligned with your business objectives.
• Compliance – Understanding applicable regulatory and industry requirements, assessing how well your current controls address those requirements, and maintaining evidence that demonstrates compliance.

An integrated approach connects technical security findings to business priorities, creates clear ownership and accountability, and provides boards and executives with visibility into cyber risk in business terms they understand. DXC helps organizations establish the governance structures, policies, controls and accountability mechanisms required to make cyber risk visible, controlled and accountable.

Having cybersecurity controls is essential, but controls alone are insufficient. An integrated risk and compliance program provides:

• Controls address 'how' not 'why' – Individual controls address specific security threats, but don't provide visibility into overall risk exposure or alignment with business objectives.
• Fragmented vs. integrated – Without integration, compliance activities remain fragmented, inconsistent and reactive, rather than coordinated and strategic.
• Regulatory evidence – Regulators want evidence that your governance structures ensure controls are effective, monitored and continuously improved.
• Board and executive visibility – Technical control inventories are difficult for executives to understand. A risk program translates findings into business language and risk metrics.
• Accountability and ownership – A program establishes clear ownership of cyber risk across the organization with defined decision rights and escalation paths.
• Continuous improvement – Shifts from reactive (fixing problems) to proactive (prevention integrated into operations).

Cybersecurity controls are the building blocks; a cyber risk and compliance program provides the architecture that ensures those controls work together effectively and deliver measurable business value.

It depends on your industry, geography and customer base. But most large regulated organizations face at least 3-4 simultaneously:

• Financial Services: SOX, PCI DSS, FCA/BAFIN, ISO 27001
• Healthcare: HIPAA (US) or equivalent UK/EU standards, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2
• Energy: NERC CIP (if critical infrastructure)
• Public companies: SOX
• Service organizations: SOC 2, ISO 27001
• Federal agencies and affiliated contractors, vendors, other private-sector organizations: NIST, ISO 27001   

The challenge is that these frameworks overlap but aren't identical. A control that satisfies PCI DSS might partially satisfy GDPR but not HIPAA. Most organizations try to manage each framework separately, which is expensive and error-prone. DXC maps your regulatory landscape and builds compliance programs that satisfy multiple frameworks simultaneously.

A cyber maturity assessment should provide three critical insights:

• Current state baseline – Where you are today across governance, risk management, people, process and technical capabilities against recognized industry frameworks.
• Strengths and gaps – Clear visibility of what you're doing well and material capability gaps that create risk exposure, rated on a defined scale.
• Prioritized roadmap – A defensible, sequenced improvement plan that prioritizes investments based on business impact and risk reduction, not just best practices.

DCX's cyber maturity assessment is a strategic tool that tells you where you are, where you need to be and how to get there in a way that prioritizes business impact and risk reduction. It's not a compliance checklist.

Annual Compliance Assessments are point-in-time audits conducted once per year. Organization prepares, the assessment occurs, findings are reported, then compliance goes quiet until next audit. Continuous Compliance is an ongoing visibility of compliance status throughout the year. Controls are monitored continuously, evidence is gathered systematically, gaps are identified and remediated in real-time and the organization is perpetually audit-ready.

DXC embeds continuous compliance into how the organization works day-to-day, rather than as a once-a-year activity. It reduces audit risk, enables faster remediation and provides continuous visibility of compliance status.

Yes. Managing compliance across jurisdictions requires navigating complex overlapping requirements:

1. Understanding jurisdiction-specific requirements – GDPR applies to EU operations, NIS2 applies to EU essential services, HIPAA to US healthcare, with different data residency and incident reporting requirements.
2. Mapping requirements across jurisdictions – Many requirements overlap; map where single controls satisfy multiple regulatory obligations.
3. Establishing global governance – Account for local laws while maintaining consistent global policies and standards.
4. Managing different audit requirements – Different jurisdictions require different audit types, timelines and evidence standards.
5. Continuous monitoring – Regulatory requirements evolve at different rates across jurisdictions.

DXC's strategic approach: Build a common control framework that satisfies core requirements across all jurisdictions, then layer in jurisdiction-specific requirements. This maximizes efficiency while maintaining compliance in each location.

In addition to a security awareness consulting and developing training roadmap,, DXC offers provides strategic consulting about incident response plan reviews and creation; technical recovery rehearsals; ad-hoc remediation support; CISO-as-a-service; tabletop exercises; tool-based security awareness training; and phishing campaigns.