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Federal CISO Strategy

Helping Federal CISOs build resilience and manage risk through integrated strategies and cybersecurity excellence

Innovation meets rigor to protect the mission

Federal CISOs and other cybersecurity leaders face real challenges. Escalating attacks using more sophisticated tactics. Protecting legacy environments with decades of technical debt. Never-ending compliance requirements. Congressional scrutiny. Demands from the mission to move faster. And budget constraints, acquisition hurdles, and talent gaps.

Our Cybersecurity Strategy & Risk Management offerings empower and equip federal leaders to overcome these hurdles to lead some of today’s most important battles. We combine innovative thinking with hands-on experience to implement cybersecurity strategies that consistently achieve sustainable and demonstrable results.

Our real-world focus sets us apart:

  • Mission-tested
  • Relentless focus on innovation
  • Commercial best practices
  • World-class talent armed with industry-leading best practices
  • Commitment to rigor

We partner with our federal clients to move the mission forward securely.

Services

We provide strategies, insights, and best practices to elevate your cyber posture to industry-leading levels, allowing you to secure your enterprise, maintain compliance, and operate with confidence.

Cyber strategy

Senior advisors supporting federal CISOs in developing strategies and policies, security operating models, benchmarking, & other advisories services. 

Mission assurance & risk management

Systems and governance frameworks to assess, manage, and monitor security risks spanning the enterprise actively and continuously.

Security assessment

Comprehensive assessment and gap analysis of current security operations with recommendations for modernizing security stack & growing cyber maturity.

Vulnerability management

Systematic review, scanning, patching and remediation of hardware, software, and network vulnerabilities.

3PAO

Accenture Federal Services is a FedRAMP-accredited Third-Party Assessment Organization (3PAO) – learn more.

Talent management

Recruitment, training, and workforce planning to attract, retain and grow world-class cyber talent.

Workforce communications

Targeted, multichannel education, change management, and communications programs to boost compliance.

Assessment & Authorization

Accenture’s Cyber Assurance Integration Framework (CAIF) is a proven, fit-for-federal solution that integrates a continuous authorization model for risk management with automated security compliance processes. Employing a “touch once, report many” approach, CAIF uses the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) as a foundational enabler, and it repeats and reuses compliance documentation processes to automate additional compliance requirements including FISMA, FISCAM, and operational audits. 

Learn how CAIF can deliver continuous authorization with DevSecOps speed and rigor.

CAIF powers more flexible, intelligent application development processes combining DevSecOps for speed and quality with continuous assessment for compliance and security.

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What we think

Federal Cybersecurity

IDC technology spotlight on XDR for government

IDC Technology Spotlight examines how government can use extended detection & response to prevent, detect, assess, and remediate cyber incidents.

Cyber

The case for managed security services

Managed security services like Accenture’s XDR for Government enable agencies to detect, defeat, and recover from attacks faster and more confidently.

Cyber

Growing zero trust security with an XDR strategy

Accenture’s XDR for Government is built for zero trust, offering the speed, agility, and intelligence needed to stay ahead of the threat.

Federal Viewpoints blog

Get the latest insights from our Cyber thought leaders on building and maintaining cyber resilience.

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Continuous Authorization streamlined through compliance automation

By automating Continuous Authorization, agencies can ensure that the modern, agile IT capabilities they’re deploying have security built in.

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Accenture Federal Services named Cloudflare's GSI Partner of the Year

Accenture Federal Services was recently named Cloudflare's Government Systems Integrator Partner of the Year for the Americas.

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How we're protecting the internet's "phone book" for federal agencies

CISA’s Protective DNS Service secures federal DNS traffic and thwarts the vast majority of cyberattacks before they can even get launched.

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Awards and recognition

Accenture is continually recognized as a best-in-class security solutions provider by both technology leaders and independent industry analysts.

HFS Research

HFS Top 10: Cybersecurity Service Providers, 2022

Accenture ranked #1 Cybersecurity provider

Forrester

The Forrester Wave™: Global cybersecurity consulting providers, Q4 2021

Leader in global cybersecurity consulting

IDC Marketscape

Worldwide Incident Readiness Services, 2021 vendor assessment

Leader in Worldwide Incident Readiness Services 

IDC Marketscape

Worldwide Managed Security Services 2020 vendor assessment

Leader in Worldwide Managed Security Services 

Cloudflare

Government Systems Integrator Partner of Year

Cloudflare’s GSI Partner of the Year for 2021 

Splunk

2022 Global Systems Integrator Partner of the Year

Global SI Partner of the Year for 2022

Our leaders

Khushboo Doshi

Managing Director – Accenture Federal Services, Cyber Strategy & Risk Lead
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Andrew Kim

Senior Manager – Accenture Federal Services, Cybersecurity, Security Strategy & Defense Lead
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Tram Pham

Senior Manager – Accenture Federal Services, Cyber Mission Assurance Growth & Strategy Lead
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Kristin Groth

Manager – Accenture Federal Services, Cyber Human Capital & Cyber Strategy and Technology Lead
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Explore our federal cybersecurity offerings further

Federal Cyber Resilience

Our end-to-end cybersecurity services and skilled professionals enable agencies to build the cyber resilience needed to maintain mission assurance.

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Security Architecture & Engineering

Protecting the nation by building security and trust into mission-critical systems.

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Cybersecurity Operations & NextGen SOC

Combining analytics, automation, and best practices to identify and defeat cyber-attacks faster. 

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Join our team

At part of Accenture Federal Services’ cybersecurity practice, you’ll collaborate with the brightest minds in cybersecurity. Together we’ll build cyber resilience to protect our nation.

We bring together mission expertise with proven innovation and leading practices to help the federal government do the extraordinary things it takes to create a better future for all of us. We are passionate about partnering with clients, going beyond the bold future we collectively imagine, to create real and enduring change for our country and our communities. We deliver new value and advantage that lasts, drawing on the full power of our partners and Accenture.

By joining our team, you’ll be working with dedicated colleagues and change makers who work with our clients at the heart of the Nation’s priorities in defense, intel, and public safety.

 

Join our team

A destination for curious, motivated minds, we welcome exceptional individuals to work on our teams dedicated to programs of national significance. Advance your career in a thriving community of driven individuals in AI, machine learning, cyber, data science, cloud, and information exploitation.

Our teams provide a range of tech-enabled services to clients with the most complex, sensitive missions across the US federal government including the intelligence community and Department of Defense.

 

Explore mission careers

We are honored that veterans, service members and military spouses choose Accenture Federal Services to continue their public service. We exceeded our goal of recruiting 5,000 military veterans, service members and spouses by the end of 2020, and we’re bringing new thinking and innovative partnerships to ensure veterans, reservists and their spouses succeed in their new careers with us. Together we all bring a great diversity of talent to our clients, our communities, and our country.

 

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