Accenture Security Services
Video Transcript
Omar Abbosh: So you can’t open a
newspaper today without looking
and seeing something about cyber
risk, and the honest truth is, I think
it’s understated because a lot of
what happens goes unreported. But
just to give you a sense of it, five out
of six of the world’s biggest
companies was attacked in one way
or another during 2014 and that
trend is not going away. I know, for
example, an electric grid company, a
national electric grid company that
gets 20,000 attempted intrusions
every day. So the consequence of
this is massive. Reputations clearly
can be lost of senior leaders, brands
of companies, trust with end
consumers in the brands and in the
services they receive if their own
data is lost by a company for
example. And, of course, the
financial consequences are very big.
The number of reported incidents
about $20 million of cost doubled
during the course of 2014. The
nature of the threat is continually
evolving and so the nature of the
defense and the prevention, the
response, must continue to evolve
all the time. We come at it very
strategically. Our focus is always on
high performance. What does high
performance look like in that
company, and how do we help set
them up in the right way for
security? What is the nature of the
threat facing this particular
company, what matters most to
them and where are the biggest
vulnerabilities? Protecting a
connected car is completely
different from protecting a refinery, is
completely different from
protecting credit card companies or
banks against fraud and financial
fraud. The way Accenture thinks
about this is before an event, How
do we prevent the event and protect
a company? During event, how do
we detect that event happening
through the cyber capabilities and
analytics capabilities, and then after
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event, remediation incident
response. So whether it’s the
Oracles or the Fordruks or the
Spunks or the Securinex or the
Taniums or what have you,
Accenture is working with these
companies and we can bring the
latest, and best and most relevant to
what they have to our clients. And
then finally, of course, our own
investments, whether it’s innovative
investment or acquisitions. So, for
example, when we go out and buy
an outstanding company, like
Fusion X, where some of the
smartest and deepest cyber
capabilities out there, we’re keeping
ourselves current and relevant. Our
focus is always on High
Performance.