Accenture announced new services and capabilities to transform business and cyber resilience through generative AI, counterfeit protection, and quantum-secure data security solutions. These innovations aim to help customers across industries build cyber-resilient organizations in the face of increasing AI-driven cyberattacks.
Accenture Cyber Intelligence (ACI) researchers reported a 223% increase in exchanges of deepfake-related tools on dark web forums in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. This significant increase in AI-based threats highlight the need for advanced AI-based cybersecurity. measures to detect, respond to and prevent threats in real time.
Accenture’s new cybersecurity services include:
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Secure AI solutions: Provides resiliency across the lifecycle of an organization’s AI program with frameworks, policies, red team simulations, and Gen AI security diagnostics to detect and secure unauthorized AI deployments . -
Protection against deep fakes: Offers deepfake security testing, monitoring, and threat detection in collaboration with partners like Reality Defender. -
Resumption of the cyber crisis for businesses: A cloud-based solution designed to reduce recovery downtime from cyberattacks, enabling critical infrastructure to be restored in hours instead of weeks. -
Quantum Security Suite: Develops quantum-secure policies, identifies vulnerable encryption, and implements the latest quantum-secure algorithms recommended by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Accenture is also enhancing its core cybersecurity services with AI generation capabilities through its Accenture mySecurity platform. These capabilities include supply chain risk mitigation, cloud security, application security, and managed detection and response to improve operational efficiencies and reduce costs.
To further strengthen global cybersecurity infrastructure, Accenture is expanding its network of Cyber Future Centers, which now spans more than 40 locations in 22 countries. The new facilities include a flagship AI security studio in Brussels, a quantum security center in Bangalore and a sovereignty center in Malaga. These centers are designed to leverage AI generation and quantum security solutions for comprehensive cyber defense.
Julie Sweet, President and CEO, Accenture
Modern cybersecurity protects the entire enterprise, from the digital core to the supply chain, and leverages AI-driven, quantum-proof protections that are essential as cybercriminals multiply new types of attacks using advanced AI technologies. Our new cybersecurity services and centers help our customers use the latest technologies to protect their critical assets and increase resilience, so they can reinvent themselves with confidence and create more value, faster.
Paolo Dal Cin, Global Head, Accenture Security
The cybersecurity landscape sits at the intersection of unprecedented technological advancements and growing challenges compounded by geopolitical and systemic supply chain risks. Helping our customers adopt cybersecurity solutions powered by Generation AI will enable them to effectively navigate change, accelerate their business protection, and become cybersecurity and business resilient organizations.
