Cybersecurity Analyst Recognition

Accenture is positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Japan Managed Detection and Response 2025 Vendor Assessment (山下 頼行 Yoriyuki Yamashita, IDC #JPJ53015825)

In this research, Accenture was positioned as a Leader based on the evaluation of its "Strategy" and "Capabilities."

This research was conducted on 13 vendors providing MDR (Managed Detection and Response) services in the domestic managed security services market, and Accenture is recognized for the following strengths:

• By combining MDR solutions with business consulting, Accenture takes an approach that aligns security responses with corporate operations and management strategies. Through strategic support, such as CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) assistance, GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) enhancement, and prioritization of security investments, it aims to connect security measures with the entire organization's risk management and resilience improvement, rather than limiting them to the technical domain.
  
  
• It is promoting initiatives such as threat hunting using AI agents and the automation of initial responses.
  
  
• By establishing a system for multilingual support from its Security Operation Centers (SOCs) deployed at many locations globally, it provides support for strengthening IT governance in addition to MDR, especially for large corporations with overseas bases.

About IDC MarketScape: 

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. 

IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

Everest Group has positioned Accenture as the highest-designated Leader on both the Market Impact axis and the Vision and Capability axis in its Cloud Security Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025, which evaluated 18 leading service providers.

According to Kumar Avijit, Vice President, Everest Group, “Accenture has positioned itself at the forefront of global cloud security services market through its sustained focus on platform-led transformation and gen AI-enabled automation. Its integrated mySecurity suite, strong hyperscaler alliances, and investments in agentic AI capabilities demonstrate a clear commitment to improving clients’ cloud-native security posture, compliance automation, and multi-cloud security management. Accenture’s execution strength in large modernization programs, combined with its expansive global delivery network and collaborative engagement approach, enables it to deliver secure cloud migrations at scale while strengthening clients’ operational resilience. These combined capabilities have positioned Accenture as a Leader in Everest Group’s Cloud Security Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025.”

The report highlights the following Accenture strengths:

• Comprehensive, platform-led cloud security transformation with Accenture’s mySecurity platform, which integrates CNAPP, CSPM, and IaC guardrails across hyperscalers, supported by AI-driven remediation.
  
  
• Security Brain for enterprises prioritizing Gen AI-led automation in cloud security, providing agentic AI–enabled compliance and orchestration capabilities across multi-cloud environments.
  
  
• Cyber Resilience POD and CR-IaC frameworks for enterprises focused on cyber and cloud resilience to support rapid recovery, operational continuity, and infrastructure resilience following security incidents.
  
  
• Mature integrations with Prisma Cloud, Wiz, and Defender for Cloud for enterprises requiring enhanced multi-cloud and hybrid cloud visibility, enabling runtime protection and unified policy orchestration.
  
  
• Strong alignment between its cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity services as highlighted by clients, positioning it well for bundled, end-to-end transformation engagements.

Leaders in this research “demonstrate a comprehensive cloud security portfolio spanning advisory, transformation, and managed security services, with strong capabilities in cloud-native security, zero-trust frameworks, and multi-cloud governance. They are at the forefront of embedding AI and automation for continuous threat detection, compliance monitoring, and misconfiguration remediation, enabling proactive risk mitigation across complex hybrid environments.”

Recently, Accenture agreed to acquire CyberCX, a leading privately-owned cybersecurity services provider serving both private and public sector organizations across Australia, New Zealand and internationally. The move represents Accenture’s largest cybersecurity acquisition to date and will significantly bolster Accenture’s cybersecurity services in Asia Pacific. It will further expand Accenture’s leading position in the region, enhancing its ability to build business resilience, protect critical infrastructure and drive secure enterprise reinvention amidst an increasingly complex regulatory and threat landscape.

Accenture is a leading provider of integrated cybersecurity services and industry-specific solutions. Delivered at global scale through over 40 Accenture Cybersecurity Centers, we transform cybersecurity into an engine for business growth and differentiation. Our AI-powered assets and 29,000 highly skilled specialists help clients harness cybersecurity to power business, protect people and drive reinvention. Visit us at Cybersecurity Consulting Services & Strategies | Accenture

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Accenture is positioned as a Leader in the U.S. State and Local Government Professional Security Services 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, which evaluated 10 service providers. (December 2025, IDC #US53891025)

We believe being positioned as a Leader is the result of our combination of deep cybersecurity expertise with mission-specific understanding of state and local government operations, enabling solutions aligned to reliability, compliance, and trust. We also believe our strong ecosystem of technology partnerships, strategic investments in frontier security technologies (including post-quantum security, space systems protection, and agentic AI monitoring), and continued development of AI, GenAI, and agentic-AI capabilities further reinforce our ability to advance cyber-resilience across the public sector.

According to Ruthbea Yesner, IDC MarketScape author and Vice President, Government Insights, Education, Smart Cities, “Professional services firms are helping U.S. State and Local Governments evolve their cybersecurity and cyber-resilience posture in response to an expanding attack surface resulting from the rapid adoption of edge devices, hybrid and multicloud environments, and the proliferation of AI. The IDC MarketScape: U.S. State and Local Government Professional Security Services 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment shows that Accenture offers state and local government organizations a dedicated state and local government go-to-market team, cybersecurity talent and a broad partnership ecosystem.”

The IDC MarketScape highlighted the following strengths:

• Dedicated state and local government unit and go-to-market structure: Accenture has a robust North American state and local government go-to-market business unit composed of sales teams, SMEs, and services tailored for cloud, security, and digital transformation for state and local government mission areas.
  
  
• Talent depth: Accenture's global workforce and dedicated cybersecurity experts provide depth to staff cybersecurity advisory, threat-hunting teams, compliance experts, and technical architects. This depth helps customers scale rapidly during incidents or modernization waves.
  
  
• Strategic alliances and innovation: Partnerships with global cybersecurity technology vendors enable Accenture to keep up-to-date threat intelligence, AI-driven detection, and incident response, as well as to explore innovative areas such as post-quantum cryptography and security of space systems.

Recently, Accenture agreed to acquire CyberCX, a leading privately-owned cybersecurity services provider serving both private and public sector organizations across Australia, New Zealand and internationally. The move represents Accenture’s largest cybersecurity acquisition to date and will significantly bolster Accenture’s cybersecurity services in Asia Pacific. It will further expand Accenture’s leading position in the region, enhancing its ability to build business resilience, protect critical infrastructure and drive secure enterprise reinvention amidst an increasingly complex regulatory and threat landscape.

To learn more about Accenture’s Cybersecurity capabilities, please visit: Cybersecurity Services | Accenture

About IDC MarketScape:
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market.

IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

Accenture is positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance Consulting Services 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment, which evaluated 19 service providers. (December 2025, IDC #US53936925) 

We believe Accenture is recognized for its “holistic life cycle–oriented approach” and GRC embedded across cyber-resilience, transformation, and risk-management.

Specifically, the IDC MarketScape highlighted the following strengths:

• Global scale and deep expertise: Accenture brings global scale with deep, industry-specific GRC as well as cyber-risk and compliance expertise, leveraging advanced capabilities in controls automation, regulatory change, and GRC platforms. Accenture's partnerships (e.g., with ServiceNow, ProcessUnity, and Hyperproof) strengthen its ability to deliver large-scale federated GRC transformations.
• End-to-end capability: Accenture's offering spans strategy, operating model design, platform implementation, and AI-powered managed services. That breadth reduces handoffs and preserves institutional knowledge. It also helps keep accountability clear from design through steady-state run.
• Deep industry and regulatory IP: Industry playbooks and control libraries shorten discovery and design, allowing programs to inherit proven patterns rather than start from zero. This speeds up time to value in highly regulated environments.
• Integration at enterprise scale: Accenture routinely connects GRC to ERP, ITSM, SecOps, data, and analytics. Its alliance network and delivery tooling compress integration cycles. The result is higher levels of automation for evidence, testing, and reporting.

The IDC MarketScape suggests clients should “Consider Accenture When”: 

• Global, multiregulatory transformation: If you have many regions and regulators to harmonize, Accenture's scale and industry IP can help standardize policies, controls, and data while allowing local nuance. This combination reduces fragmentation and speeds adoption across business units.
• Strategy to run-operate in one program: If you need operating model design, platform selection/implementation, and managed services under a single governance structure, Accenture can align senior stakeholders, convert designs into workflows, and set up steady-state operations. This continuity limits handoff risk and protects benefits realization.
• Complex integrations and automation: If your GRC must connect to ERP, ITSM, SecOps, and data/AI platforms, Accenture's alliance network and delivery toolkits shorten integration cycles. The result is higher automation of evidence, issues, and reporting across functions.
• Leveraging the power of partnerships: Accenture identifies key partners that can accelerate, complement, and enhance outcomes to create value for customers and ensure the successful completion of customer initiatives.

Philip D. Harris, IDC Research Director, Governance, Risk and Compliance Services stated, "Accenture has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance Consulting Services 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment, demonstrating its ability to deliver end-to-end solutions to its clients—from strategy through to AI-powered managed services—while ensuring clear accountability and seamless execution for its projects. By leveraging its deep regulatory IP, automated integration capabilities, strategic eco-system partnerships, and deep understanding of its clients' businesses, Accenture is well-positioned to accelerate its clients' time-to-value and reduce risks."

Recently, Accenture agreed to acquire CyberCX, a leading privately-owned cybersecurity services provider serving both private and public sector organizations across Australia, New Zealand and internationally. The move represents Accenture’s largest cybersecurity acquisition to date and will significantly bolster Accenture’s cybersecurity services in Asia Pacific. It will further expand Accenture’s leading position in the region, enhancing its ability to build business resilience, protect critical infrastructure and drive secure enterprise reinvention amidst an increasingly complex regulatory and threat landscape.

To learn more about Accenture’s Cybersecurity capabilities, please visit: Cybersecurity Services | Accenture

About IDC MarketScape:

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market.

IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

Accenture is positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Protection and Governance Services 2025 Vendor Assessment, which evaluated 16 service providers.

We believe our core capabilities and innovations around data discovery, classification and minimization; protection controls; post-quantum cryptography and cryptoagility; deepfake protection; and privacy, consent, and Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) automation all contributed to our positioning in this research.

Cathy Huang, IDC Senior Research Director of Worldwide Security Services, stated "Accenture’s AI-first approach to data governance is not just about automation—it’s about redefining operational efficiency at scale. Its proprietary mySecurity AI and Sensitive Data Discovery Engine exemplify how innovation can directly translate into measurable business outcomes.”

According to the report, “clients should consider Accenture when they need AI-driven security and resilience—from deepfake defense and quantum-safe transformation to global SOC coverage and self-healing controls—including converting large data and complex regulations into measurable risk and cost reductions."

Specific Accenture strengths highlighted in the report include:

• “Scale and reach: Accenture has a global network of 45 security centers, including 16 cyber fusion centers, 21 cyber incubation centers, 3 quantum security centers, and 1 GenAI security innovation hub that houses AI or quantum hardware (e.g., an H200 GPU cluster) for rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept builds, allowing clients to "touch and feel" solutions before committing to full deployment.”
  
  
• “Certified data protection framework with multidisciplinary execution excellence: Accenture's DPG services portfolio is organized around an ISO 27001/27701-certified client data protection (CDP) framework that enforces a repeatable runbook on every engagement. This framework is executed by multidisciplinary teams drawn from four internal practices — strategy, protection, resilience, and cyber–physical. According to client feedback, "Accenture has excellent attitude, being accountable and responsive to our requests."
  
  
• “AI-first automation: Besides the mentioned mySecurity AI that automates discovery and classification, Accenture offers AI Refinery and Agentic AI Orchestration — an agent platform that integrates third-party AI services (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, CyberArk identity agents) into a governance mesh. In IDC's August 2025 Data Protection and Governance Services Survey (n = 1,018), Accenture received strong customer ratings for these areas — data classification and mapping, AI data risk assessment and governance, data lineage and provenance, and data recovery support.”
  
  
• “Quantum-safe leadership: In the same survey, Accenture received very strong rating for helping customers get quantum ready. Accenture's 24 PQC-related patents; strategic investments and partnerships with vendors like QuSecure, Aliro, and SandboxAQ; and real customer cases keep Accenture ahead of many providers on cryptoagility and quantum key distribution (QKD) proof of concepts (POC).”

Recently, Accenture agreed to acquire CyberCX, a leading privately-owned cybersecurity services provider serving both private and public sector organizations across Australia, New Zealand and internationally. The move represents Accenture’s largest cybersecurity acquisition to date and will significantly bolster Accenture’s cybersecurity services in Asia Pacific. It will further expand Accenture’s leading position in the region, enhancing its ability to build business resilience, protect critical infrastructure and drive secure enterprise reinvention amidst an increasingly complex regulatory and threat landscape.

To learn more about Accenture’s Cybersecurity Centers, please visit: Accenture Cybersecurity Centers

About IDC MarketScape: 
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market.

IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

Everest Group has positioned Accenture as the highest-designated Leader on both the Market Impact axis and the Vision and Capability axis in its Identity and Access Management (IAM) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025, which evaluated 25 leading IAM service providers. 

According to Kumar Avijit, Vice President at Everest Group, "Accenture has carved a leadership position in the global Identity and Access Management (IAM) services market through its sustained investments in innovation and transformation. The firm’s investments in IP-led accelerators, automation through AI-powered assistants and agents, and its comprehensive mySecurity platform reflect a strong focus on enhancing agility, resilience, and user experience across identity ecosystems. Additionally, Accenture’s responsive management approach, senior leadership involvement, and large IAM delivery teams ensure swift consultation and turnaround for clients.”

Accenture strengths cited in the report include:

• IAM Modernization Toolkit and the IAM Asset Catalog, which offer DevOps pipelines, accelerated app onboarding, migration toolkits, and test/configuration automation to reduce risk and downtime.
  
  
• Responsive management, senior leadership involvement, and large IAM teams for quick consultation and turnaround.
  
  
• Security Al agents (built on the Al Refinery) with orchestration across partner agents and in-house agents to drive end-to-end automation across the IAM value chain.
  
  
• Partnership with CyberArk to implement a zero-trust-driven machine identity security framework with life cycle, provisioning, and privileged access controls.
  
  
• Gen Al-powered approach to accelerate incident resolution and infuse Al across consulting, design, implementation, and operations.

Leaders featured in this report offer a robust identity and access management (IAM) suite—including IGA, AM, PAM/PIM, CIAM, and cloud identity—enhanced by proprietary accelerators and automation frameworks that elevate delivery, while also pioneering AI integration into IAM workflows and initiating governance for AI agents and machine identities.

In September 2025, Accenture announced our acquisition of IAMConcepts. The acquisition will bolster our ability to deliver advanced IAM solutions in Canada across key critical infrastructure industries such as financial services, power utilities, mining and transportation. For more information, please see the press release: Accenture Acquires Identity and Access Management Company IAMConcepts to Expand Cybersecurity Footprint in Canada

Disclaimer 
Licensed extracts taken from Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® Reports, may be used by licensed third parties for use in their own marketing and promotional activities and collateral. Selected extracts from Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® reports do not necessarily provide the full context of our research and analysis.  All research and analysis conducted by Everest Group’s analysts and included in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® reports is independent and no organization has paid a fee to be featured or to influence their ranking.  To access the complete research and to learn more about our methodology, please visit Everest Group PEAK Matrix® Reports. 

About Everest Group 
Everest Group is a leading global research firm helping business leaders make confident decisions. Everest Group's PEAK Matrix® assessments provide the analysis and insights enterprises need to make critical selection decisions about global services providers, locations, and products and solutions within various market segments. Likewise, providers of these services, products, and solutions, look to the PEAK Matrix® to gauge and calibrate their offerings against others in the industry or market. Find further details and in-depth content at Everest Group®.

Forrester has positioned Accenture as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Consulting Services In Europe, Q4 2025, which evaluated 13 service providers. 

According to the Forrester Wave research, “Organizations that prioritize delivery speed, clear accountability, a problem-solving mindset, and technological expertise should consider Accenture.”

Accenture received the highest possible score in the criteria of Alignment with client CISO needs; Client centricity; Localized delivery support; Cybersecurity upskilling and literacy; Cybersecurity culture services; Resilience services; Staff augmentation and outsourcing services; Partner ecosystem; Pricing flexibility and transparency; and Talent strategy. 

Specific strengths cited in this complimentary report include:

• Strategy. Accenture’s technology-driven vision focuses on innovation, advanced AI, quantum technologies, and building proprietary assets to boost efficiency and predictability. Its partner ecosystem drives co-innovation. It develops talent by equipping all employees with security skills and redeploying those interested in cybersecurity to its cybersecurity consulting services practice. Accenture acquired Vocatus to trial behavior-based pricing models.
  
  
• Capabilities. Accenture uses a structured staffing process for its engagement staffing and resource allocation, harnessing employee profiles that detail skills, growth paths, and feedback to match talent to specific projects. It also upskills its clients by designing learning programs with partners that align with a client’s context and skill gaps. Its change management practices on technology consolidation projects allow clients to migrate systems smoothly and ensure effective daily use of new tools. Accenture uses supply chain expertise, simulation, and AI-driven scenario planning to stress-test digital twins, uncovering vulnerabilities and enabling faster, more resilient responses to disruption.

Recently, Accenture agreed to acquire CyberCX, a leading privately-owned cybersecurity services provider serving both private and public sector organizations across Australia, New Zealand and internationally. The company’s end-to-end services extend across consulting, transformation and managed security services and include advanced capabilities in offensive security and cyber physical security, crisis management, threat intelligence, managed detection and response, as well as strategic advisory, identity, cloud and network security. CyberCX operates a network of advanced security operations centers across Australia and New Zealand, with additional offices in London and New York, combining deep local insight with international reach.

Accenture helps clients de-risk tomorrow by boosting cybersecurity today. To learn more about how to infuse cybersecurity into your organization’s strategy and ecosystem to protect value, help prevent threats, and build trust as you grow, please visit: Cybersecurity Consulting Services & Strategies | Accenture

Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. For more information, read about Forrester’s objectivity here.

IDC has positioned Accenture as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Managed Detection and Response Services 2025 Vendor Assessment, which evaluated 16 service providers. (September 2025, IDC #AP52998725)

We believe this positioning reflects our delivery capabilities support by integrated Cyber Fusion Centers and our intelligence-driven MxDR platform; our ability to embed gen AI across the MDR lifecycle; and our vertical-specific capabilities and modular MDR offerings.

According to the report, clients should consider Accenture when they need “need an MDR provider with global delivery scale, deep domain experience in securing critical infrastructure, and the ability to localize services for regulatory and operational needs.” IDC added that “Accenture's modular MxDR platform supports diverse environments and integrates with a wide range of existing security investments, making it suitable for both large enterprises and midmarket organizations undergoing security modernization.”

Other Accenture strengths cited in the report include:

• “Clients value Accenture's ability to provide 24 x 7 managed SOC operations and incident response, supporting consistent security monitoring and faster containment.”
  
  
• “The firm's breadth of experience across managed EDR, SIEM, and threat hunting services was cited as a key factor in reducing reliance on internal resources and improving the organization's cyber-risk posture.”
  
  
• “Accenture's MDR offering includes telemetry ingestion, analytics-driven detection, and remote incident response, aligning it with client expectations for integrated threat management.”
  
  
• “Clients have reported reduced monthly threat incidents up to 90%, improved compliance postures, and enhanced executive visibility through real-time dashboards.”
  
  
• “Accenture's MDR services benefit from the firm's broader experience in delivering large-scale IT transformation programs, enabling it to support centralized cybersecurity operations with consistent delivery, integration depth, and global scalability.”

Accenture combines managed security services, advanced analytics, gen AI-powered solutions and integrated cyber defense to out-innovate even the most sophisticated attackers. To learn more about our Cyber Fusion Centers, please visit: Accenture Cybersecurity Centers

About IDC MarketScape:
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market.

IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

Accenture is positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Incident Response 2025 Vendor Assessment, which evaluated 19 service providers. (August 2025, IDC # US52036825)

We believe our ability to provide integrated, scalable, intelligence-driven services to clients across geographies and industries played a role in our positioning. According to the IDC MarketScape, Accenture should be considered by “organizations with a global footprint that desire a mature, globally integrated, and innovation-driven approach to incident response…”

The research cited the following Accenture strengths:

• “Customers surveyed noted that Accenture is quite accurate in estimating up front in an IR engagement what the total costs and scope will be for its services.”
  
  
• “Accenture can offer regional in-market resources in localized languages. Accenture also has branded Cyber Fusion Centers, SOCs, and cyber-ranges across all three markets (Americas, EMEA, and Asia/Pacific).”
  
  
• “The company offers tools and capabilities to support all phases of IR and recovery within OT and IT environments including power, oil and gas, utilities, life sciences, maritime, and automotive. To support this, Accenture employs tooling from Nozomi, Claroty, and Splunk for commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions.”

In today’s landscape of ongoing technological change, cyber resilience involves much more than reacting to technical incidents as they happen. It focuses on establishing robust crisis management and recovery capabilities to effectively handle cyber threats before, during, and after they occur. Accenture’s global delivery team offers full-spectrum support to enhance your current preparedness and equip you to face future challenges.

Recently, Accenture agreed to acquire CyberCX, a leading privately-owned cybersecurity services provider serving both private and public sector organizations across Australia, New Zealand and internationally. The move represents our largest cybersecurity acquisition to date and will significantly bolster cybersecurity services in Asia Pacific, including incident response services.

To learn more about Incident Response Services offered by Accenture, please visit: Cyber Response & Crisis Management | Accenture

About IDC MarketScape:
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market.

IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

Everest Group has positioned Accenture as the highest Leader on both the Market Impact axis and the Vision and Capability axis in the Everest Group Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025. Link to the report

Everest Group evaluated 29 leading MDR service providers for this competitive report. According to the research, “Enterprises seeking global reach and scalability benefit from Accenture's extensive network of 22 centers and over 4,000 MDR professionals.”

Other factors leading to Accenture’s positioning as the highest Leader include:

• Tiered pricing model, beginning with a basic level of MDR services and scaling up gradually as their requirements expand
  
  
• Cyber Operational Resilience (CORe) framework, which enhances and operationalizes MITRE ATT&CK for improved detection and response
  
  
• Flexible platform options, including full-stack and hybrid deployment, seamlessly supporting multi-vendor and client-owned ecosystems
  
  
• Advanced security operations, automating tasks, enhancing threat hunting, and optimizing security for increased efficiency and faster response

In this research, Leaders are cited as having demonstrated “robust ability to meet the diverse and evolving needs of enterprises by delivering end-to-end MDR services. They maintain strong capabilities in integrating advanced technologies such as gen AI, XDR, and IT-OT security convergence to provide proactive threat detection, automated incident response, and seamless security operations.”

Disclaimer  
Licensed extracts taken from Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® Reports, may be used by licensed third parties for use in their own marketing and promotional activities and collateral. Selected extracts from Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® reports do not necessarily provide the full context of our research and analysis.  All research and analysis conducted by Everest Group’s analysts and included in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® reports is independent and no organization has paid a fee to be featured or to influence their ranking.  To access the complete research and to learn more about our methodology, please visit Everest Group PEAK Matrix® Reports.