Accenture Opens Cyber Center to Help Organizations Tackle Complex Security Challenges
April 21 2016 - 12:29AM
Business Wire
Freeport-McMoRan Taps Accenture to Operate New
Cyber Defense Platform From the Center
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) 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.
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“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.
About Accenture
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providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately
373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries,
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