Accenture and Mandiant Team to Help Organizations Strengthen Business Resilience Against Increasingly Sophisticated Cyber Threats

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Accenture and Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, have joined forces to provide cyber resilience services to help organizations better detect, investigate, respond to, and recover from cyberattacks. The partnership aims to leverage Mandiant Threat Intelligence and expertise in Cyber Resilience services, enabling clients to enhance their cybersecurity operations and protect against evolving threats.

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• Collaboration between Accenture and Mandiant will enhance organizations' ability to manage cyber threats and strengthen their cyber resilience.

• Utilization of Mandiant Threat Intelligence and expertise in Cyber Resilience services will provide actionable insights and better understanding of cyber threats to clients.

• Partnership will offer clients crisis response lifecycle management support, from prevention to response and recovery, helping organizations achieve a higher level of resiliency in the face of cyberattacks.

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NEW YORK & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, are teaming up to collaboratively deliver cyber resilience services to help organizations more efficiently detect, investigate, respond to and recover from cyberattacks. As part of the partnership, Accenture will utilize Mandiant Threat Intelligence, a comprehensive and actionable platform, and Mandiant expertise in its Cyber Resilience services.

Accenture and Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, are teaming up to collaboratively deliver cyber resilience services to help organizations more efficiently detect, investigate, respond to and recover from cyberattacks. (Graphic: Business Wire)

The cybersecurity landscape is constantly changing, with cybercriminals and nation-state actors adopting new ways to target victims and evade detection. According to Accenture’s Cyber-Resilient CEO report, three-quarters (74%) of CEOs are concerned about their organizations’ ability to avert or minimize damage to the business from a cyberattack.

“With the rising volume and velocity of cyberattacks, effective management of a destructive cyber event hinges on having a dedicated 24/7 global team of highly skilled responders and a well-defined operational process. Organizations need trusted partners that can help manage the entire crisis response lifecycle from prevention to response and recovery,” said Robert Boyce, Global Cyber Resilience lead, Accenture. “Together with Mandiant, we will help organizations achieve a higher level of resiliency in the face of cyberattacks.”

The partnership brings further scale to Mandiant’s Incident Response insights by leveraging Accenture’s global presence and industry expertise in crisis response and business recovery. Together, Mandiant and Accenture will help clients to gain better insights and understanding of cyber threats and vulnerabilities specific to their businesses and recover from incidents more efficiently. Additionally, as an expansion of Accenture and Google Cloud’s partnership announced last year, Mandiant Threat Intelligence is now embedded in Accenture’s Adaptive Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR) service with Google Chronicle Security Operations.

“Business resilience requires constant vigilance and proactive measures to stay ahead of ever-evolving threats,” said Sandra Joyce, VP Google Threat Intelligence, Google Cloud. “Whether it is the continued growth of multi-faceted extortion or expansion of zero-day exploitation, organizations face a challenging threat landscape today. Leveraging partners like Accenture to deliver Google's visibility and insights formed by our frontline engagements is an important next step for Mandiant to better enable security teams in operationalizing intelligence.”

Accenture and Mandiant are currently helping a major public sector organization in the Netherlands to significantly improve its cybersecurity operations by optimizing resources, reducing complexities and delivering threat-informed cyber defenses at scale. Over the next five years, Accenture and Mandiant will provide the organization’s cybersecurity services, including MxDR, Incident Response and Remediation services and generative AI embedded capabilities. This approach will help the public sector organization better protect the digitized services it provides its citizens by increasing visibility of new threats and lowering risk exposure.

“End to end incident response and curated cyber threat intelligence services are essential for organizations to protect their data and assets from cyberattacks,” said Cathy Huang, Research Director, Worldwide Security Services, IDC. “By working with a trusted partner like Accenture and Mandiant, organizations can gain peace of mind that they have access to the resources and expertise to effectively respond to and recover from any cyber incident.”

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 742,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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 22,000 highly skilled professionals, we enable clients to innovate safely, build cyber resilience and grow with confidence. Visit us at accenture.com/security.

About Google Cloud

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

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FAQ

What is the partnership between Accenture and Mandiant about?

Accenture and Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, have partnered to deliver cyber resilience services to help organizations detect, investigate, respond to, and recover from cyberattacks.

What is Mandiant Threat Intelligence and how will it be utilized in the partnership?

Mandiant Threat Intelligence is a comprehensive platform that will be used by Accenture to provide clients with actionable insights and enhance their cyber resilience.

How will Accenture and Mandiant help organizations improve their cybersecurity operations?

The partnership will enable organizations to optimize resources, reduce complexities, and deliver threat-informed cyber defenses at scale, enhancing overall cybersecurity operations.

What services will Accenture and Mandiant offer as part of the partnership?

Accenture and Mandiant will provide services such as MxDR, Incident Response, and Remediation services, along with generative AI embedded capabilities, to help organizations better protect against cyber threats.

What organization in the Netherlands is currently being assisted by Accenture and Mandiant?

Accenture and Mandiant are helping a major public sector organization in the Netherlands to improve its cybersecurity operations and protect the digitized services it offers to citizens.