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Accenture acquires Kogentix to strengthen data engineering business
Accenture has acquired Kogentix. Kogentix will strengthen Accenture Applied Intelligence’s data engineering business as companies are looking to harness open source big data …
Accenture Touchless Testing Platform integrates AI technology
Accenture has acquired an artificial intelligence (AI) technology from Real Time Analytics Platform. The technology will be integrated into the Accenture Touchless Testing …

Not enough CISOs and business leaders cooperate on a cybersecurity plan and budget
With the proliferation of more and more sensitive data, expanding connectivity, and the adoption of automated processes, new research from Accenture reveals that C-suite and …

Most aerospace and defense companies to integrate blockchain by 2021
Approximately six in seven aerospace/defense companies (86 percent) expect to integrate blockchain into their corporate systems within three years, according to a new research …

Organizations are becoming more resilient to focused cyber attacks
Accenture has polled 4,600 security decision makers at US$1B+ companies in 15 countries to understand the effectiveness of security efforts and the adequacy of existing …

Compliance functions make a turn towards innovation-fueled strategies
Faced with growing threats of ‘industry shocks’ such as cyber fraud, cryptocurrency, quantum computing and open banking, financial institutions expect to increase their …

Financial services firms most adept at making balanced security investments
Cyber attacks cost financial services firms more to address and contain than in any other industry, and the rate of breaches in the industry has tripled over the past five …

Future workforce: Intelligent technology meets human ingenuity
Businesses risk missing major growth opportunities unless CEOs take immediate steps to pivot their workforces and equip their people to work with intelligent technologies. The …

Taking the physician’s pulse on cybersecurity
More than four in five U.S. physicians (83 percent) have experienced some form of a cybersecurity attack, according to Accenture and the American Medical Association (AMA). …

Accenture inadvertently exposes highly sensitive corporate, client data online
Corporate consulting giant Accenture left bucketloads of sensitive corporate and client data exposed online for anyone to access. Luckily for them, it seems that UpGuard …

Outsmarting grid security threats
Almost two-thirds (63 percent) of utility executives believe their country faces at least a moderate risk of electricity supply interruption from a cyberattack on electric …

Which security investments make a difference?
Costly cyber attacks are having a significant and growing financial impact on businesses worldwide. According to Accenture and the Ponemon Institute, in 2017 the average cost …
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