Accenture
is expanding its global security presence by opening a cyber center in
Bangalore, India. The new state-of-the-art facility uniquely brings together
interdisciplinary capabilities, ranging from the innovation, incubation and
development of new solutions to strategic consulting and transformation, and
the managed delivery of a broad range of cyber defense services,
enabling clients to tap into the latest strategies and technologies to address
their toughest cybersecurity challenges, As-a-Service. The center is a
cornerstone of Accenture’s cybersecurity growth strategy and commitment to a
multi-million-dollar investment in new cybersecurity capabilities, platforms,
and industry-specific solutions over the next several years. It will provide
access to scarce security capability and demonstrated solutions designed to
help organizations detect, respond to and remediate sophisticated cyber threats
on-demand, at-speed and at-scale.
“Many organizations are playing a constant
game of catch up when it comes to cyber defense and they are struggling to
manage a fragmented security environment,” said Bill Phelps, managing director
and Security lead, Accenture Operations. “The new center will be a hub for
continuous, collaborative innovation – melding the combined brainpower of our
clients’ teams, Accenture’s security and industry specialists as well as
university and ecosystem alliance partners. Together we can replace
vulnerability with capability by building innovative security solutions that
can outpace cyber adversaries.”
Accenture is also launching its new Cyber Defense Platform, a cloud-based
security platform that integrates key elements to quickly and affordably
industrialize and scale a 24/7 managed security capability. The Accenture Cyber
Defense Platform utilizes Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)
to deliver advanced threat detection, correlation, search and incident
management capabilities, and is built on the public cloud so clients can easily
select cyber defense services, partners, and support options based on their
business requirements, As-a-Service.
Freeport-McMoRan Inc., a premier international natural resources company,
is tapping into the new Platform and the Bangalore cyber center team, to help
secure its hybrid cloud enterprise As-a-Service. Freeport-McMoRan’s new
security architecture is being deployed through the Accenture Cloud Platform to
create a multi-cloud management environment with new cost-analytics features to
better manage cloud usage and spending. Adding the Cyber Defense Platform to
the mix provides a scalable, affordable, fast and standardized managed security
service that helps the organization rapidly understand its security environment
and get ahead of threats that target their hybrid cloud environment.
Manish Sharma, senior managing
director, Delivery and Solution Development, Accenture Operations, said,
“As we help our clients become digital businesses, we must also help them
protect their critical data and infrastructures, and become more resilient. By
applying our As-a-Service delivery model and integrating our extensive industry
knowledge with leading innovations in advanced analytics and intelligent
automation technologies into our security solutions, we are squarely focused on
our mission to deliver persistent vigilance to our clients, so that they can
confidently turn to what matters most for their business rather than the
threats to it.”
The cyber center is the largest cybersecurity facility in the Accenture Global Delivery Network,
which includes more than 50 facilities. Accenture has grown its security
presence in India for nearly five years and today it’s one of the company’s
largest geographies globally. Accenture employs more than 3,400 security
specialists worldwide and has a global footprint of cyber centers in Manila and
Prague. The new center’s features consist of:
- An amphitheatre-style command center
with threat analytics visualizations for monitoring and mitigating
real-time security threats.
- War rooms, replete with leading video
conferencing systems specifically designed to help clients collaborate
with Accenture’s security specialists located across a network of cyber
centers to develop next generation security solutions.
- An advanced threat simulator through
which new cyber threats are modelled and remediation approaches are
developed.
“As
cyber threats become more frequent, complex, and severe, organizations are
shifting to a proactive stance by creating agile, adaptive IT infrastructures,”
said Christina Richmond, program director, security services for IDC. “Clients
need to work with partners whose skills are vast enough and integrated enough
to handle that complexity. Accenture’s cyber center helps clients take
advantage of Accenture’s latest innovative cloud-based, As-a-Service and analytics-driven
solutions that can be rapidly deployed, so they can deeply embed security into
the fabric of their businesses.”
The Accenture cyber centers are dedicated to advancing Accenture’s end-to-end
portfolio of cyber defense services, which cover strategy, transformation,
managed security services, automated threat intelligence, monitoring, advanced
analytics and real-world adversary simulations, as well as incident response
and remediation.
