PwC Hong Kong has expanded its strategic partnership with watchTowr to strengthen preemptive cybersecurity capabilities across enterprise environments. Through this expanded collaboration, PwC will continue delivering the watchTowr Platform within its Managed Security Service (MSS) portfolio, enabling organizations to continuously validate real-world cyber exposure and respond faster than threat actors.
Since launching the partnership in early 2024, both companies have supported major organizations across critical infrastructure, enterprise sectors, and higher education environments in Hong Kong. As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, organizations increasingly recognize the limitations of traditional reactive security monitoring. Therefore, PwC and watchTowr have focused on helping clients shift toward proactive cyber resilience. By validating which vulnerabilities are genuinely exploitable, prioritizing high-risk exposures, and tracking remediation progress, the partnership helps security teams reduce risk in measurable ways.
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watchTowr’s Preemptive Exposure Management technology plays a central role in this strategy. The platform combines proactive threat intelligence, real attacker telemetry, and automated validation processes. As a result, organizations can quickly identify exploitable weaknesses across their external attack surface before attackers actively exploit them. Additionally, an AI-driven automation pipeline converts emerging attacker behavior into actionable intelligence and validated exposure insights at high speed, giving defenders a critical time advantage.
PwC operationalizes these advanced capabilities at enterprise scale. As part of its MSS offering, PwC manages the watchTowr Platform around the clock while translating complex technical findings into clear business and security actions. Furthermore, PwC integrates frontline incident response insights and threat intelligence knowledge into platform operations. Consequently, clients benefit from faster validation cycles, improved prioritization, and significantly reduced time-to-action during active threat scenarios.
Jenius Shieh, Partner, Cybersecurity and Privacy, PwC Hong Kong, said:
“watchTowr is an industry leader in understanding how attackers think and act. Our goal with this partnership is to democratize regional security. By combining PwC’s threat intelligence and incident response experience with the watchTowr Platform capabilities, we help clients translate emerging threats into practical defenses. This approach fortifies individual clients and the wider digital ecosystem alike.”
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To further enhance cyber resilience, PwC has implemented a dedicated 24/7 support model for clients using the platform. By centralizing cybersecurity expertise and leveraging automated workflows, PwC ensures faster resolution of security inquiries and accelerates response timelines when new threats emerge. Key service enhancements include round-the-clock support access, integrated workflow reporting through ITSM tools, and executive-level advisory across CISO functions. In addition, PwC provides services such as managed vulnerability management, remediation orchestration, asset aggregation, cyber threat intelligence reporting, and rapid red-team deployment options.
As part of the partnership expansion, PwC’s DarkLab technical simulation environment will refine its strategic direction. After integration into PwC’s Consulting practice, DarkLab will focus more heavily on Managed Security Services, particularly exposure management and attack surface management. This transition aligns technical cyber defense capabilities with broader business transformation strategies.
Elvina Liow, VP Global Partnerships and Enablement, watchTowr, said:
“PwC’s team in Hong Kong knows what it takes to operate security programs under real-world pressure. They trust the watchTowr Platform to continuously validate exposure and to move quickly when threats emerge. Together, we’re helping organizations find real weaknesses fast, confirm what’s exploitable, and reduce risk before attackers can take advantage.”
Looking ahead, PwC and watchTowr plan to scale the managed service model across additional APAC markets. The expansion roadmap includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand. Through this regional expansion, the partnership aims to establish a new standard for preemptive exposure management across the broader Asia-Pacific cybersecurity landscape.
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