IT Security: Services Overview

With the rapid technological advances, increased market pressures and growing sophistication in security threats, IT organizations must move from pure compliance to proactive defense and value creation. IT leaders have to perform a delicate balancing act between mitigating risks and driving growth. Incorrect emphasis can render an organization vulnerable, or unable to move with the necessary agility to compete in the competitive global marketplace.

Accenture’s Security Solutions professionals leverage decades of experience, deep industry knowledge and business-process know-how to create pragmatic, flexible approaches that can help protect against threats, minimize risks and adopt new technologies needed to grow. By implementing comprehensive security solutions, organizations can:

• Increase shareholder value by reducing risk, costs and complexity

• Achieve compliance targets

• Improve productivity and business growth

• Increase customer trust by protecting information and systems from threats and attacks

As the largest technology-independent consulting organization in the world, Accenture is uniquely qualified to create security strategies that build on existing assets and integrate the right solution for the problem.

Experienced, Trusted Advisor
As a trusted advisor who listens, observes and assesses each situation in context, we bring a wealth of experience that spans many types of government agencies and more than 20 major industry sectors around the globe.

Industrialized, Yet Catered to Your Needs
We’ve “industrialized” security and have invested heavily in our services to make our tools and processes reusable for any situation. That does not mean, however, that our solutions are identical from one client to another; on the contrary, we tailor solutions to your unique case.

Fast, Cost-effective Delivery
Drawing from a complete, proven security toolkit and quickly implementing robust security measures, our global security professionals are available around the clock through onshore, offshore and near-shore models.

Powerful Relationships
Although Accenture is vendor-agnostic when it comes to technology recommendations, our relationships with world-class technology providers extend our capabilities, reduce project risk and help streamline the vendor evaluation and procurement process.

Our portfolio of specific security services include:

• Accenture Identity and Access Management Services: Processes and tools to centralize and streamline the management of access and entitlements within the extended enterprise, helping clients reduce costs, minimize risks and meet regulatory compliance requirements.

• Accenture Information Protection Services: Scalable and adaptable frameworks to help organizations meet privacy requirements and address regulatory and policy compliance issues, enabling organizations to reduce risks and enhance trust with customers, partners and suppliers.

• Accenture Application & Infrastructure Security Services: Help organizations protect enterprise applications, including SAP, Oracle and related custom applications from internal and external threats. By securing applications and infrastructure, organizations can confidently adopt the new technologies needed to generate growth.