Accenture Named a Leader in European Cybersecurity Consulting Providers Report by Independent Research Firm
04 December 2019 - 12:59AM
Business Wire
Accenture Security receives among highest
scores in strategy category
Accenture Security has been named as a Leader in the latest
Forrester Research report on European cybersecurity consulting
providers. The report titled, “The Forrester Wave™: European
Cybersecurity Consulting Providers, Q4 2019” states that “Accenture
is a good fit for chief information security officers who want to
transform their security programs quickly and need both deep
technical and strategy expertise.”
To assess the state of the information security consulting
market in Europe, Forrester evaluated strengths and weaknesses of
top firms to provide an analysis of key differentiators against a
comprehensive set of 21 criteria. The evaluation criteria for the
Forrester Wave report are grouped into three high-level categories:
‘Current Offering’, ‘Strategy’ and ‘Market Presence’.
Out of the 15 firms evaluated, Accenture (NYSE: ACN) received
among the highest scores in the ‘Strategy’ category. Across all
three of the high-level categories, Accenture received the highest
scores possible in 17 of the 21 criteria, such as: cyberconsulting
practice vision, executive engagement and business acumen,
engagement delivery model innovation, security team engagement,
European pricing models and asset-based pricing, and European
practice size.
The report notes that “Accenture demonstrated some of the
strongest industry knowledge of the firms we evaluated through its
industry-specific business process models (industry value chains),
with clear linkages to cybersecurity risk within business
processes.”
“We have made significant investments in Accenture’s
cybersecurity consulting capabilities in Europe over the past four
years, with more to come,” said Paolo Dal Cin, managing director,
Accenture Security lead for Europe and Latin America. “We believe
this recognition by Forrester further validates our strategic
approach to cybersecurity services and the high-quality work we do
on behalf of clients to help them secure their businesses
end-to-end. We will continue to invest heavily in joint client
innovation, our people and differentiated solutions tailored to our
client’s industry needs so they can grow securely.”
The Forrester Wave™: European Cybersecurity Consulting
Providers, Q4 2019 can be accessed here:
https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/security/leading-security-firm-forrester.aspx
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 492,000 people
serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives
innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us
at www.accenture.com.
Accenture Security helps organizations build resilience
from the inside out, so they can confidently focus on innovation
and growth. Leveraging its global network of cybersecurity labs,
deep industry understanding across client value chains and services
that span the security lifecycle, Accenture protects organizations’
valuable assets, end-to-end. With services that include strategy
and risk management, cyber defense, digital identity, application
security and managed security, Accenture enables businesses around
the world to defend against known sophisticated threats, and the
unknown. Follow us @AccentureSecure on Twitter or visit us at
www.accenture.com/security.
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