Accenture Ranks No. 1 in Cybersecurity Service Providers by HFS Research
July 19 2022 - 8:59AM
Business Wire
Accenture recognized as a global cybersecurity
powerhouse putting customer-centricity and innovation at the
forefront of its strategy
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been recognized as the No. 1
cybersecurity service provider overall in a new report from
industry analyst firm HFS Research.
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Accenture has been recognized as the top
cybersecurity service provider in new report from industry analyst
firm HFS Research (Graphic: Business Wire)
The report, “The HFS Top 10: Cybersecurity Service Providers,
2022,” assessed 15 service providers’ capabilities across a defined
series of criteria to identify how well service providers help
their enterprise clients effectively improve their cybersecurity
posture. In addition to achieving the top overall ranking,
Accenture ranked No. 1 in eight of the 11 evaluation criteria:
scale of cybersecurity business; growth of cybersecurity business;
overall execution; strategy and vision; co-innovation and
collaboration; emerging trends readiness; overall innovation; and
OneOffice alignment.
“Our position in this HFS report reflects our mission to help
clients build cyber resilience through transformative solutions
that better protect them in today’s constantly evolving cyber
threat landscape,” said Paolo Dal Cin, who leads Accenture Security
globally. “We focus not only on traditional cybersecurity
safeguards but on new and emerging technology areas such as quantum
computing, edge computing, the metaverse and more. As our clients
move to the cloud and explore these new technologies, we are ready
to support their journey.”
Among Accenture’s strengths the report cites are its:
- Growth: The Accenture Security practice is growing at
about 3x the rate of the market and competition and has grown by
more than 70% over the past three years.
- Go-to-market offerings: The report notes Accenture’s
wide range of offerings centered around cyber defense, applied
cybersecurity services, and managed security services, as well as
an investment strategy that includes acquisitions, ecosystem
partnerships, and strategic investments in innovative start-up
companies, security R&D and delivery excellence.
- Talent management: The report cites Accenture’s key
talent-retention strategies of investment in continuous
professional development and its upskilling programs. The report
notes that “Accenture pays special attention to ensuring security
practitioners are cross-skilled with industry knowledge and
actively promotes various initiatives focused on inclusion and
diversity in cybersecurity.”
- Outcomes: According to the report, “Accenture uses its
proprietary business capability maturity models to help clients
articulate business value, opportunities for improved security, and
quantitative outcomes necessary to make the right investment and
measure return.”
According to HFS, one of Accenture’s key differentiators is its
“next-generation IT and OT security operations centers.” Recently,
Accenture joined the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency (CISA) Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), which now
includes Industrial Control Systems (ICS) experts.
“Accenture has built deep expertise and capabilities across all
areas of the cybersecurity value chain,” said Ralph Aboujaoude
Diaz, practice leader, Digital Trust and Cybersecurity at HFS
Research. “Accenture is putting client-centricity, partners’
ecosystem, and innovation at the forefront of its cybersecurity
strategy.”
In addition to being ranked as the No. 1 cybersecurity service
provider by HFS Research,
Accenture was recently positioned as a Leader in the latest IDC
MarketScape analysis of managed security services (MSS) providers
in Europe and in two Forrester reports on cybersecurity: The
Forrester Wave™: Global Cybersecurity Consulting Providers, Q4 2021
and The Forrester Wave™: European Cybersecurity Consulting
Providers, Q3 2021.
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