Accenture Expands Generative AI-Powered Cybersecurity Services and Capabilities to Accelerate Clients’ Resilience and Reinvention
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Core Cybersecurity Services: Newly Powered by Gen AI (Graphic: Business Wire)
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
“The cybersecurity landscape is at a crossroads of unprecedented technological advancements and mounting challenges compounded by geopolitical and systemic supply chain risks,” said
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.
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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 operations1. 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:
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Core Cybersecurity Services Newly Powered by Gen AI Achieve up to 30-40% cost reduction and acceleration of security transformation efforts through modernization, rationalization and automation |
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Supply Reduce manual efforts in operations and significantly increase speed to response |
Cloud Security Reduce the time to create security-embedded infrastructure as code from days to minutes |
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Application Security Secure applications end-to-end, easing human effort |
Managed Detection and Response Leverage security AI assistants to automate manual tasks |
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Identity and Access Management Enhance identity strategy, accelerate transformation and increase operational efficiency |
Platform Security Streamline implementation and operations through AI enhanced deployment and accelerated ticket closures |
For example, Accenture is actively working to shield nations from cyberattacks and is helping the
New Cyber Future Centers
Additionally, delivering these new cybersecurity servicesAccenture 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
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
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Gartner Press Release, “Gartner Survey Shows Rising Concern of AI-Enhanced Malicious Attacks as Top Emerging Risk for Enterprises for Second Consecutive Quarter”,
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Accenture Security is a leading provider of end-to-end cybersecurity services, including strategy, protection, resilience and industry-specific cyber services. We bring security innovation, coupled with global scale and a worldwide delivery capability through our network of Cyber Fusion Centers. Helped by our team of more than 25,000 highly skilled professionals, we enable clients to innovate safely, build cyber resilience and grow with confidence. Visit us at accenture.com/security.
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