The need for IA to embrace an expanded advisory role is acute, because the risk landscape keeps shifting, and IA functions are expected to keep pace. While top executives surveyed for the Price waterhouse Coopers 2013 Risk in Review study cited potential economic shocks and increased political and regulatory pressures as top risks, those executives’ attention had shifted significantly by the time we conducted our 2014 study. Today, our executive respondents’ most oft-cited concern is technological change and information technology (IT) risk.