Secure your data, protect identities and build trusted relationships with customers, constituents and partners, resulting in improved performance and greater business value.
Overview
Accenture helps organizations secure their data, protect identities and build trusted relationships with their customers, constituents and partners, resulting in improved performance and greater business value. For more than 20 years, Accenture's strategic approach has proven its effectiveness by addressing threats and vulnerabilities, foiling breaches and meeting stringent compliance demands in alignment with organizational priorities. Accenture's solutions reduce complexity, secure data, protect identities and improve business processes.
From this perspective, Accenture believes effective information security amounts to doing five things especially well:
- Assessing and managing security risks and vulnerabilities
- Securing the technology and network infrastructure
- Providing business continuity and disaster recovery
- Securing enterprise applications
- Managing identity and access
With a suite of offerings to address these key areas of security management, Accenture's Security practice helps you simplify your fragmented security systems and create a standardized approach across the enterprise to improve your business processes, your operational efficiency and your overall productivity.
Security Risk Management
Security is only effective when the right strategy, governance and organizational capabilities are in place to effectively manage risk and comply with regulations.
Our Security Risk Management offering provides a holistic, integrated and scalable approach to security risk management, incorporating organizational, procedural and technology components. Our approach uses advanced technologies and methods to embed security as much as possible into the network and the entire communications infrastructure, creating an intelligent capability that reduces the amount of human intervention required. Specific services include:
- Assessment and pre-Archer implementation services that help prepare organizations in terms of governance, strategy, policy and design in order to best achieve success and high performance.
- Archer implementations with full-service integration support, such as policy and control mappings, compliance, program development, metrics development and tailored on-demand application development.
- Remediation capabilities to help fill gaps such as Compliance Readiness, Identity and Access Management, Data Privacy and Loss Prevention, Business Continuity Planning, as well as full-spectrum security capabilities up to and including outsourcing.
Enterprise Application Security
Accenture developed its Enterprise Application Security offering to help organizations protect their critical enterprise applications, such as payroll, human resources and accounts payable, from external threats using a combination of software-, hardware- and procedure-based methods. While enabling secure deployment of their ERPs, we deliver additional value to our clients by helping improve compliance with industry and government regulations and reducing the total cost of ownership of their enterprise applications. Our services provide:
- A holistic approach to SAP security; encompassing technology, controls, processes and management.
- Integration with Enterprise-wide Identity Management with standardized roles and authorizations.
- Roadmap for discrete strategic investments aligned for technological advancements and regulatory needs.
- Capabilities to establish assurance and enforce change controls before risks enter the system.
- Controls automation and effective implementation of emerging technologies.
Identity and Access Management
Our Identity and Access Management offering employs a pragmatic and business-relevant approach, drawing upon field-tested assets, industry expertise and extensive experience that aligns the right processes and governance models to the best technology solutions.
Our experience shows that high-performers share the following key Identity and Access Management program characteristics:
- Strategy that is closely aligned to business objectives, and therefore generates enhanced business outcomes
- The right process and governance models to support the business and the technical solution
- C-level sponsorship and involvement
- Highly skilled security professionals with deep experience in managing complex programs and systems
In addition to custom solutions, Accenture offers preconfigured identity and access management solutions based on reusable platforms that offer predictability, repeatability and cost efficiency. The result is a solution that comes with reduced development time, cost and risk and an increase in quality.
Infrastructure Security
Accenture takes a comprehensive, end-to-end approach to securing the technology infrastructure and enabling better granular control over data security. Our Infrastructure Security offering establishes comprehensive controls that form an effective security defense without excessive spending on specific technologies. Our approach involves implementing four categories of controls: securing the network, securing the systems, securing the data and then managing the security infrastructure.
Accenture helps you reduce IT and security operations costs by proactively mitigating security risks rather than being reactive after problems occur. By maintaining the proper balance between protecting assets and enabling flexible information access for employees, customers and business partners, our Infrastructure Security offering maximizes your organization's return on security investment.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Through our Business Continuity Management offering, Accenture works closely with clients to implement business continuity strategies, methods and tools that provide prevention and crisis management, as well as alternate resources and procedures that can help sustain business functionality during a crisis, no matter how large the crisis may be. We ask the questions that get organizations thinking in terms of how business value is put at risk by a compromise in specific business and IT processes. Our approach shifts organizations away from a tendency to focus solely on compliance and toward a heightened level of readiness. Our services include:
- Creating planning processes encompassing BCP needs.
- Identifying critical business assets and supporting resource capabilities to determine their value and cost to replace.
- Developing a business impact analysis and risk assessment for a detailed determination of the risks in your business.
- Ensuring all individuals are provided with continuous training and awareness.
Company
For Accenture, the accent is on trying to help businesses improve their performance. The world's largest consulting firm, Accenture offers management consulting, information technology and systems integration, and business process outsourcing [BPO] services to customers around the globe. The company divides its practices into five main operating groups -- communications and high technology, financial services, public service, products, and resources -- that encompass more than 15 industries. Accenture, which is domiciled in Bermuda but headquartered in New York, operates from more than 150 locations in about 50 countries. Traditional business consulting remains a core function for Accenture, but systems integration and outsourcing have become key growth sectors. The company has been expanding in those areas via tuck-in acquisitions. In addition, Accenture is investing in staff development initiatives designed to more closely integrate the firm's IT-related and strategy-related consulting offerings. Accenture disperses its advice widely -- no single operating group accounts for more than a quarter of the firm's sales. Similarly, Accenture has diversified its operations geographically. Revenue from outside the US makes up a majority of its sales mix. However, as with the rest of the outsourcing services industry, the company is looking to India as a key area for expansion: It also has its eye on China.
Licensing
For more information, please contact G. Christopher Hall, Security Risk Management Lead at:
Phone: 412.809.5841
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