Organizations in pursuit of high performance must have IT systems that are flexible and adaptable to enable rapid response to changing market conditions—but which are nevertheless secure. This is one of the most delicate balancing acts that CIOs have to perform. Incorrect emphasis will either render the company vulnerable, or unable to move with the necessary agility to compete in the competitive global marketplace.

Many leading CIOs realize that getting this balance right requires the help of a specialist team. Accenture’s Security service line leverages its decades of experience in security, deep industry knowledge and business-process know-how to create pragmatic, flexible approaches to information and network security.

Meet the Security Leaders
Security professionals from Accenture Technology Consulting have the skills, capabilities and experience to help organizations protect valuable data and maintain the integrity of their IT systems.

Accenture is one of the world’s largest independent sources of technology solutions and offers the largest global security implementation workforce. Accenture’s groundbreaking High Performance Business research helps ensure that we see beyond technology to the business benefits that security must enable.

Accenture’s research into what makes for high-performance business is supplemented by more than 10 years’ experience with hundreds of security clients around the globe—and experience in making almost every conceivable technology solution deliver projected business benefits. We carefully assess what our clients need, and then craft the appropriate security solution.

At its simplest, we believe effective information security is about doing five things especially well:

• Assessing and managing security risks and vulnerabilities. Analyzing threats, putting in place the right strategy, governance and organization capabilities to manage risks and comply with regulations.

• Securing the technology and network infrastructure. Providing endpoint security and integrity, traffic management and configuration management.

• Business continuity and disaster recovery. Ensuring not only rapid recovery from technology failure and/or security breaches, but also proactive prevention of failures in the first place.

• Managing identity and access. Providing safe, efficient access to critical applications and resources. Includes user administration, provisioning and access permissions, as well as better user awareness, policies and training.

• Securing enterprise applications. An end-to-end capability to provide application-level security—an approach encompassing technology, controls, processes and management.

Contact us to find out how Accenture can help you create a secure foundation for high-performance business.

Our security solutions help clients address these five fundamental areas.

Accenture Security Risk Management Solution
The Accenture Security Risk Management Solution provides a holistic, integrated, scalable approach to security risk management, incorporating organizational, procedural and technology components. The Accenture approach uses advanced technologies and methods to embed security as much as possible into the network and the entire communications infrastructure, creating an intelligent or sense-and-respond capability that reduces the amount of human intervention required.

Accenture Infrastructure Security Solution
The Accenture Infrastructure Security Solution is a comprehensive, end-to-end approach to securing the technology infrastructure and enabling better granular control over data security. The Accenture Infrastructure Security Solution establishes holistic controls to form an effective security defense without excessive spending on specific technologies. We leverage the comprehensive defense-in-depth point of view to create a powerful suite of capabilities for implementing four categories of controls: securing the network, securing the systems, securing the data and then managing the security infrastructure.

Accenture Enterprise Application Security Solution
The Accenture Enterprise Application Security Solution helps organizations with software, hardware and procedural methods to protect their critical enterprise applications from external threats. Because of the scope and uniqueness of software applications, we provide two integrated sets of offerings: Secure Application Services and Enterprise Resource Planning Security Services.

Accenture Identity and Access Management Solution
The Accenture Identity and Access Management Solution focuses on both strategy and delivery of comprehensive solutions that address the process, technology and people dimensions of effective identity and access management. We help clients implement all aspects of an identity and access management solution, including identity management portals, single sign-on solutions, strong authentication solutions (both internal and consumer facing), directory and meta-directory consolidation, provisioning and federated identity solutions.

Accenture Business Continuity Management Solution
Accenture offers a unique approach to providing security solutions that include advanced and innovative techniques for disaster recovery and business continuity planning. We help organizations embed loss prevention and business continuity capabilities into their processes and management structure. The result is an organization focused on robust business resiliency—on the ability to maintain high performance even in the face of the unknown.