David Walker serves as senior strategic adviser for the public sector practice at PwC’s U.S. arm. In this capacity, the 40-year audit industry veteran offers advice to senior government officials and PwC executives on public sector and financial restructuring issues. Before he joined PwC in 2015, Walker served as the seventh U.S. Comptroller General and head […] More

A new PwC survey says 91 percent of business organizations have implemented the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework and other risk-based security guidelines in an effort to detect and mitigate cyber threats. PwC polled at least 10,000 C-suite executives of information technology and security firms from more than 127 countries from May 7 through June […] More

Chris Stansbury serves as managing director and public sector sales lead at PwC, where he oversees customer sales and public sector business development. Before he joined PwC in 2005, Stansbury served as the managing director and global healthcare sales lead at BearingPoint and a global account executive at SAP. He also held the roles of business […] More

PwC and India-based NIIT University will offer a master’s degree program on cybersecurity in an effort to address the demand for professionals that will work to counter cyber threats in India, the Economic Times reported Monday. Neha Alawadhi writes PwC and the university will choose the candidates for the two-year course in July and subject the […] More

A new PwC report says the value of merger and acquisition deals in the global aerospace and defense sector reached $52 billion in the third quarter of this year alone, surpassing the M&A deal value the sector has recorded for any full year. According to PwC’s Mission Control report, significant deals in the sector during the […] More

PwC has released a report that charts how defense agencies in 60 countries allocate their budgets and strategize in the face of security challenges worldwide. The company said Wednesday it found that many NATO members and partner countries decreased their defense spending in recent years due to fiscal and economic factors as well as challenging […] More

PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector LLP will continue to provide process improvement and performance management support services for the Defense Health Agency under a $12.2 million task order awarded through a blanket purchase agreement of the General Services Administration. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers support for DHA’s Healthcare Operations Directorate, assistant defense secretary and […] More

PwC has unveiled the “2015 U.S. State of Cybercrime Survey,” which found that few organizations have established stronger cybersecurity measures despite the increase in attacks and the greater role of organization leaders in cyber decision-making. PwC said July 16 that 79 percent of respondents detected a cybersecurity incident in the past year, with 163 reported incidents […] More

PricewaterhouseCoopers and Tanium have agreed to combine their platforms through an alliance in an effort to help companies and government agencies protect their computer networks from insider threats and potential cyber attacks. PwC will integrate Tanium Accelerator tools and software platform intended for systems and endpoint management with its cybersecurity practice, which consists of consulting […] More

Stewart Room, head of cybersecurity and data protection for PwC‘s legal practice, has urged businesses in the Internet of Things market to build up their privacy and security measures, Computing reported Friday. “If any business gets this wrong, what they are running towards is a serious trust, confidence and legal crisis,” Room said at an event PwC co-hosted […] More

David Walker, a former head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, has joined the public sector practice of PWC US as senior strategic adviser. “We’re pleased to welcome Dave to PwC and look forward to working together to help clients address their most important issues, from strategy through execution,” Scott McIntyre, PwC’s U.S. public sector […] More

A new PwC report on the mergers and acquisitions in aerospace-and-defense industry says deal activities increased in 2014 compared to 2013 and the number of transactions worth at least $1 billion doubled from the prior year. The firm’s Mission Control report, authored by PwC Global A&D Leader Guillaume Rochard and U.S. A&D Leader Chuck Marx, says the total deal value reached $22.3 billion in 2014, up from the $14.3 […] More