Accenture Expands Innovation Hub in Metro Washington, D.C. with Launch of New Cyber Fusion Center
June 20 2018 - 8:59AM
Business Wire
Company also plans to add 1,000 highly skilled
technology jobs to the region by 2020
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has expanded its metro Washington, D.C.
innovation hub with the opening today of a new flagship Cyber
Fusion Center, located in Arlington’s Rosslyn business district,
designed to help organizations apply new techniques and intelligent
tools to defend against data breaches and cyberattacks.
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The company also plans to add 1,000 highly skilled technology
jobs in the metro D.C. region by the end of 2020, including in the
high-growth areas of security, digital and cloud.
“We applaud Accenture’s decision to expand its footprint in
Arlington and across the metro D.C. region,” said Virginia Gov.
Ralph Northam. “The company’s investments in our workforce and our
cybersecurity capabilities are helping advance our region’s
leadership in solving one of the most challenging issues we face
today. Accenture’s investments also support Virginia’s commitment
to ensuring that our people have the skills they need to thrive in
the 21st-century workforce.”
Julie Sweet, Accenture’s chief
executive officer – North America, said, “Cybersecurity is a global
issue that affects all industries, and Accenture has played a
longstanding role in the security innovation ecosystem in metro
D.C. We are excited to further our investment in the region with
our expanded innovation hub, bringing more of the capabilities
every company needs to build trust and protect themselves, their
partners and their customers in a digital economy. We are also
excited to be investing across our metro D.C. business with our
plan to create 1,000 highly skilled technology jobs. We are
committed to continuing to help grow metro D.C.”
In addition to the new Cyber Fusion Center, Accenture’s
innovation hub in metro D.C. includes an Accenture Lab and a Fjord
Studio to facilitate a design-thinking approach to problem solving,
and leverages relationships with local accelerators and the
start-up community. The Cyber Fusion Center, a state-of-the-art
facility in the heart of Washington, D.C.’s Cyber Corridor, brings
together world-class threat intelligence services, sophisticated
adversary simulations and incident response services to help
clients predict and expel cyberattacks by leveraging the latest
innovations in advanced cyber threat analytics, detection and
prevention technologies.
“The D.C. metropolitan area is home to the largest pool of
credentialed cybersecurity talent in the country,” said Omar
Abbosh, Accenture’s chief strategy officer. “Our Cyber Fusion
Center taps into this highly experienced and well-trained workforce
to bring together the best of our intelligence-driven security
solutions and services under a single roof. It’s the cornerstone of
our end-to-end security capabilities in North America and across
the world, leveraging our cybersecurity know-how to help clients
build their cyber resilience.”
The Cyber Fusion Center is co-located with an Accenture Lab,
which researches and incubates new concepts for cybersecurity
solutions through applied R&D projects. A “virtual corridor” –
a large, always-on virtual “pipe” – connects the Lab to seven other
Accenture Labs across the world, enabling cross pollination of
ideas and accelerated collaboration among R&D researchers.
Located at 1201 Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, the new facility
has been designed as an immersive workspace to encourage
collaboration and breakthrough innovation, where Accenture works
with clients to help them predict cyberattacks and test cyber
defenses with a sparring-partner approach that replicates
real-world cyberattacks. Comprising 28,000 square feet of space,
the Cyber Fusion Center has a variety of advanced technological
features, including:
- an incident response “war room,”
outfitted with leading technologies designed to help clients
collaborate with Accenture’s global team
of 5,800 security specialists, including
those located across the company’s network of Cyber Fusion
Centers; and
- a secure hardware test center that
conducts advanced research for zero-day vulnerability discovery and
defensive countermeasure analysis derived from malware reverse
engineering.
“There are few imperatives more pressing than protecting our
government and business networks from the vulnerabilities of
cyberattacks,” said U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA). “Accenture’s new
Cyber Fusion Center is contributing the innovation, talent and
leadership that is critical to prevent – and defeat – cyber
threats.”
U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) said, “Accenture’s new Cyber Fusion
Center and the commitments it is making to Arlington represent
another stride forward in Northern Virginia’s place as a major
technology center in the U.S.”
The new Cyber Fusion Center is Accenture’s fourth, joining
others in Bangalore, India; Prague, Czech Republic; and Tel Aviv,
Israel. Accenture’s innovation hub in metro D.C. is part of a
network of U.S. hubs including locations in New York; metro San
Francisco; Boston; Chicago; Houston; metro Detroit and Columbus,
Ohio. These hubs are connected to more than 100 locations around
the globe to seamlessly bring the best of Accenture’s global
investments and insights to its clients on the ground in North
America.
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Accenture Security helps organizations build resilience from the
inside out, so they can confidently focus on innovation and growth.
Leveraging its global network of cybersecurity labs, deep industry
understanding across client value chains and services that span the
security lifecycle, Accenture protects organizations’ valuable
assets, end-to-end. With services that include strategy and risk
management, cyber defense, digital identity, application security
and managed security, Accenture enables businesses around the world
to defend against known sophisticated threats, and the unknown.
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