Accenture Cyber Security Solution

Today, most organizations—both public and private—have digitized much of their supply chains. This ongoing digitization continues to generate innovations in the way in which business is conducted. In fact Accenture High Performance Business research concludes that high-performance businesses are characterized by the way in which they use IT to drive innovation through the organization as a whole.

On the flipside, however, public and private-sector organizations are now increasingly vulnerable to attack by hackers or competitors, electronic fraud, sabotage or the simple loss of data. The threat is intensified as enterprises become increasingly virtual, with IT infrastructure and services to enable business processes increasingly being delivered from beyond the corporate firewall.

As an organization’s ability to achieve high performance in large measure depends on its mastery of IT, it follows that protecting its digital assets is central to its ability to succeed. Accenture advocates a proactive approach to the pressing challenge of securing an organization’s IT infrastructure, the vital processes it enables and the data it stores. Using the advanced tools and analytics built into the Accenture Cyber Security Solution, it can help clients understand, predict and mitigate cyber risk.

The Accenture Cyber Security Solution leverages Accenture’s profound understanding of cyber threats and how to protect against them.

Accenture has more than 20 years of experience in helping clients create, perfect and protect digital supply chains. Its security experience spans virtually every industry sector and most geographies—and it has some of the world’s leading security professionals on its staff. The Accenture Cyber Security Solution incorporates Accenture’s hard-won knowledge of what works, informed by its profound understanding of business.

Accenture also leads the Secure Enterprise Network Consortium, which includes Cisco, Computer Associates, Sun Microsystems and Los Alamos National Laboratories. The consortium researches cyber defense for the intelligence community and supports classified and unclassified client projects.

The Accenture Cyber Security Solution offers the following capabilities:

• Security strategy and risk management.
• Identity and access management.
• Data loss prevention and privacy.
• Infrastructure security.
• Enterprise application security.
• Business resilience.
• Regulatory compliance readiness.
• Governance frameworks.
• Certification and accreditation.
• Threat and risk assessments.
• Analytics and metrics.
• Security code reviews.

Accenture has a range of services specifically aimed at helping the public sector secure its systems:

• Accenture Cyber Snapshot Services 
• Security Code Review Services
• Federal Desktop Core Configuration Compliance Services
• Trusted Application Delivery Services