Govern what matters. Assure what counts.

Preempting risks upfront

Cognizant’s secure by design (SbD) approach embeds security from the very beginning of system, application and infrastructure development. This DevSecOps-driven approach promotes early vulnerability detection and risk mitigation, cuts development and operational costs, improves product and system quality, ensures regulatory compliance and fosters lasting trust.

Our philosophy ensures security is an inherent part of every solution—proactive, integrated, automation-first, risk-driven and frictionless. Through three core functions—assess, enforce and govern—our framework embeds security across the entire technology lifecycle to strengthen resilience and ensure compliance.

Scale governance, automation and attestation

Well-defined and up-to-date documentation—policies, procedures and guidelines spanning cybersecurity, IT infrastructure and operational frameworks—is important for ensuring regulatory adherence, mitigating risks and fostering accountability.

Our policy management approach establishes a cohesive, resilient and audit-ready framework for governing information security policies across the enterprise, ensuring consistent policy creation, maintenance and enforcement while strengthening regulatory alignment and operational execution.

360° visibility. Total risk control.

At Cognizant, risk management is not just a control function—it's a strategic enabler. We embed risk intelligence across the enterprise to foster resilience, ensure regulatory alignment and empower confident decision-making in a dynamic threat landscape. Our integrated approach follows five stages of risk management—identify, assess, mitigate, monitor, report and improve.

Our services include:

• IT and cyber risk management consulting
• Third-party vendor risk management
• Automated IRM and AI-based solutions

Governance beyond boundaries

Our third-party risk management (TPRM) services help organizations build confidence in an increasingly interconnected world. We provide end-to-end oversight across the vendor lifecycle—from onboarding and due diligence to continuous monitoring and performance management.

We align risk practices with regulatory expectations and industry standards. By combining deep domain expertise, proven methodologies and modern digital tools, we help you protect your brand and reduce vulnerabilities. This approach allows you to make smarter decisions, strengthen governance and enhance the reliability of your entire ecosystem.

Quantifying and mitigating risks

Cyber risk quantification (CRQ) transforms cybersecurity exposure into measurable financial impact, enabling data-driven decisions, optimized security investments and alignment with enterprise risk appetite. Cognizant offers business-centric cybersecurity, emphasizing quantitative clarity over qualitative ambiguity, decision-enabling outcomes and an integration-first mindset.

Our CRQ framework is built on seven core principles: financial focus, framework agnosticism, data-driven insights, tailored reporting, continuous scalability, actionable results and transparent, auditable methodologies. This approach ensures real-time risk insights, trend analysis and compliance reporting—empowering executives and boards with clear, finance-driven risk intelligence.

Streamlining regulatory complexity

Cognizant's regulatory compliance services help organizations operate confidently within legal and industry-mandated frameworks. By ensuring adherence to laws and standards, we strengthen stakeholder trust, safeguard operations and support sustainable growth.

Our approach focuses on identifying applicable regulations, mapping risks, analyzing gaps, reviewing controls and aligning stakeholders. We strengthen compliance by updating policies and SOPs, deploying the right tools, training teams, monitoring adherence, establishing governance mechanisms, and tracking regulatory changes. We continually refine practices to help organizations meet requirements such as GDPR, CCPA, SOX, HIPAA, and the RBI Cyber Security Framework.

Delivering assurance

Cognizant's control testing as a service (CTaaS) offers a scalable, standardized model for validating the effectiveness of enterprise controls across cybersecurity, IT, cloud and third-party ecosystems. By blending automation, regulatory insight and deep domain expertise, CTaaS ensures controls are well-designed, operate effectively and meet audit-ready expectations aligned with evolving regulatory and business needs.

Our model is anchored on three core pillars—control scoping, test planning and automation—each engineered to streamline compliance activities and accelerate risk mitigation, delivering precision, scalability and operational efficiency.

Seamless audits, sustainable compliance

Cognizant delivers a structured, end-to-end audit management service that ensures continuous audit readiness, reduces audit fatigue and drives timely, risk-based closure of findings across regulatory, compliance and internal audits.

Our model enhances compliance through four stages:

• Audit readiness
  Assessing control maturity and key risks helps build a strong baseline
• Preaudit support
  Scope validation and evidence refinement strengthens stakeholder readiness
• Audit management
  Coordinating auditor interactions and evidence submissions helps streamline the process
• Postaudit closure
  Conducting root-cause analysis and remediation validation ensures sustainable compliance

Resilience through risk management

Disruptions from threats—cyberattacks to system outages—can jeopardize operations, compliance and reputation at-large. Business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) ensures critical services remain available, recovery is swift and data loss is minimized.

Cognizant's BC/DR services provide the frameworks and governance needed to sustain central operations and restore stability quickly after disruptions. Through structured planning, risk assessments and simulation-driven preparedness, we help organizations strengthen continuity, meet regulatory expectations and maintain stakeholder trust.

Integrating GRC for smart oversight

Deploying and integrating a GRC platform enables centralized oversight, real-time risk visibility, streamlined compliance tracking and improved decision-making.

Cognizant brings deep expertise in platform design, data migration, system integration and automation to create seamless, end-to-end GRC environments. By connecting the GRC platform to cybersecurity systems, we transform fragmented processes into a unified framework that supports accountability, agility and audit readiness—accelerating deployment and driving strong user adoption across the enterprise.