The ever-increasing cunning of cybercriminals is the driver of yet another collaboration this week. Accenture has teamed up with CrowdStrike to help businesses simplify their cybersecurity approach. The two companies have developed a unified platform that combines various detection and response tools. Thus, companies can now funnel all their security through one system rather than juggling multiple solutions.
The partnership combines Accenture’s security expertise with CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform, which includes cloud security, identity protection, and next-generation SIEM technology. This will result in better security operations, threat management capabilities, and AI workload protection—all while keeping costs down. Organizations can spot threats in real time, fortify their prevention measures, and address vulnerabilities more quickly.
The collaboration is essentially designed to make cyber defense less of a headache for businesses – throwing them a life vest in a sea of security alerts.
Leaders speak to security challenges
“Cybercriminals are infiltrating organizations with alarming sophistication and unprecedented speed,” said Paolo Dal Cin, global lead, Accenture Security. “To combat this, we work closely with organizations to understand their unique cybersecurity needs and tailor solutions to address their specific challenges. By combining our expertise with CrowdStrike’s technology, we can help clients adopt a more proactive and efficient approach to digital defense.”
As companies continue to move to the cloud and use AI in earnest, they’re drowning in data that their old security systems can’t handle. Security teams are getting overwhelmed trying to spot and respond to threats effectively. They are often stuck juggling outdated tech while constantly switching between different security tools that don’t work together. All this slows down their ability to protect the business and its customers from attacks.
“Customer demand for Falcon platform adoption, cybersecurity consolidation, and SOC services expertise is driving our market-moving Accenture partnership,” said George Kurtz, founder and CEO, CrowdStrike. “Accenture’s deep expertise with the Falcon platform and SIEM transformation have directly assisted organizations in upleveling their cybersecurity programs from device to cloud to datacenter.”
Kurtz goes on to say that Accenture plays a key role in guiding organizations to embrace the AI-native SOC, “leaving legacy SIEMs, point products, and manual SOC operations behind for automated, resilient, and machine speed cybersecurity platform controls.”
Key areas of focus
The Accenture-CrowdStrike partnership focuses on three key areas:
- SecOps Modernization: Streamlines security workflows by integrating threat prevention, detection and response using CrowdStrike’s Next-Gen SIEM. AI and tech consolidation can cut costs by up to 30%.
- Managed Detection and Response: Combines Accenture’s global reach with the Falcon platform to handle threats faster. Their integrated AI solutions can improve SecOps workflow efficiency by up to 60%.
- Continuous Threat Exposure Management: Transforms vulnerability management by giving organizations complete visibility across their attack surface and helping them prioritize risks. Through process simplification and tool consolidation, this approach can trim costs by up to 15%.
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