Accenture Expands Generative AI-Powered Cybersecurity Services and Capabilities to Accelerate ......
Accenture announced new services
and capabilities designed to reinvent business and cyber resilience through the
power of gen AI, deepfake protection and quantum-safe data security solutions
to help clients across industries become cyber-resilient organizations.
Cybercriminals are increasingly
using gen AI and dark large language models (LLMs) to launch new types of
cyberattacks. In fact, Accenture’s
cyber intelligence (ACI) researchers have observed a 223% surge
in deepfake-related tool trading on dark web forums in the first quarter of
2024, compared to the same period in 2023. The ACI team expects a significant
rise in AI-driven cyberattacks, a warning signal that organizations need to
adopt advanced AI-based cybersecurity measures that detect, respond to, predict
and prevent threats in real-time.
“Modern cybersecurity protects
across the entire business—from the digital core to the supply chain—and draws
on gen AI-powered and quantum-proof protections, which are vital as
cybercriminals ramp up new kinds of attacks using advanced AI technologies,”
said Julie Sweet, chair and CEO, Accenture. “Our new cybersecurity services and
centers help our clients use the latest technologies to safeguard their critical
assets and increase their resilience, so they can reinvent with confidence and
create more value faster.”
“The cybersecurity landscape is
at a crossroads of unprecedented technological advancements and mounting
challenges compounded by geopolitical and systemic supply chain risks,” said
Paolo Dal Cin, global lead, Accenture Security. “Helping our clients adopt
cybersecurity solutions powered by gen AI will enable them to effectively
navigate change, accelerate business protection and become cyber-and
business-resilient organizations.”
New
Cybersecurity Services
According to Gartner, concern about AI-enhanced malicious attacks again
topped Gartner, Inc.’s emerging risk rankings in the second quarter of 2024. To
help clients safely adopt emerging technologies while simultaneously tackling
evolving threats, Accenture is introducing new services, which it also employs
to protect its business operations. Some of these include:
- Secure AI Solutions establishes resilience
throughout an organization’s entire AI program lifecycle, including best
practices for developing frameworks; policies and processes to ensure
secure AI practices; capabilities to assess and protect access, data,
models, infrastructure and building trust-by-design in AI systems. It also
incorporates red-teaming and adversarial simulations that help find
vulnerabilities in AI systems, including LLMs and a Gen AI Security
Diagnostic to detect and secure unauthorized AI deployments.
- Deepfake Protection includes security
testing, monitoring and detection of deepfakes powered by key partners’
technologies such as Reality Defender to stay ahead
of evolving AI threats that are impacting customer contact centers,
business videoconferences and other critical points of communication.
- Business Cyber Crisis Recovery a cloud-based solution
enables C-suite leaders across industries such as healthcare,
telecommunications and oil & gas to quickly restore essential infrastructure
and significantly reduce the downtime impacts associated with recovering
from a cyberattack. As a result, essential operations can be restored in
hours rather than weeks.
- Quantum Security Suite of services for
building robust strategies, discovering vulnerable encryption throughout
an enterprise and replacing outdated technology by leveraging the latest
quantum-safe algorithms recommended by the US National Institute of
Standards and Technology and orchestrating their use securely and
efficiently.
Core
Cybersecurity Services – Newly Powered by Gen AI
Many organizations (86%) are either actively or planning to consolidate their
tools as a means to streamline their cybersecurity operations[1]. In response, Accenture is powering its core cybersecurity
offerings with the Accenture mySecurity a centralized
suite of assets that integrates gen AI into all cyber-resilience services
across supply chain, cloud, application, cyber resilience and identity and
access management to drive speed, efficiency and help clients protect against
AI-driven threats. These include:
For
example, Accenture is actively working to shield nations from cyberattacks and
is helping the Kuwait Government Central Agency for Information Technology to
strengthen their cybersecurity infrastructure through the establishment and
management of a National Security Operations Center. This collaborative effort
aims to enhance visibility, detection and remediation capabilities against evolving
cyber threats. The project will be supported by Accenture's global network of
Cyber Future Centers supported by a 24/7 local team focused on protecting the
nation's most critical organizations leveraging the benefits of gen AI.
New Cyber Future Centers
Additionally, delivering these new cybersecurity services Accenture will expand
its global network of advanced cybersecurity facilities with new Cyber Future Centers powered by
emerging technologies. The new locations include a flagship gen AI Security
studio in Brussels and a studio in Washington, D.C.; a Quantum Security Center
and Lab and a Cyber Physical Security center in Bengaluru; and a Sovereignty
Hub in Malaga. With these new centers powered by gen AI and quantum security
solutions, Accenture’s cybersecurity facilities currently span more than 40 locations
across 22 countries.
In 2024,
the number of Accenture's cybersecurity professionals grew by more than 30% to
more than 25,000 people. Since 2015, Accenture has made 19 security
acquisitions, including most recently strengthening its managed security services
capabilities in Europe and Mexico with the acquisition of Innotec Security and Mnemo Mexico, respectively. Additionally,
Accenture has invested in 13 cybersecurity, space and quantum security
companies, including SpiderOak and Aliro Quantum.
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