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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

Crypto-agility: Preparing for post-quantum decryption

Learn how crypto-agility can help federal agencies safeguard their information systems and communications from post-quantum threats.

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Accenture Federal Services

Government enters the metaverse

Our annual report takes a look at the top emerging technology trends most likely to impact government over the next three years.

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Security

The state of cybersecurity resilience 2021

For success, organizations need to give CISOs a seat at the top table, be threat-centric and business aligned and get the most out of secure cloud.

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Federal Viewpoints blog

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

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Federal Cybersecurity

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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Federal Cybersecurity

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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Federal Cybersecurity

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

Work at the heart of change. Grow, advance, and make an impact.

Every day our people do amazing things to help the U.S. federal government solve their biggest challenges. Across missions and around the globe, we are delivering change that matters and real, meaningful impact for our clients and our country. Join us and do extraordinary things that make a better future for all of us.

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