Cyware to Power Accenture’s Next-Generation Threat Intelligence Services

Cyware has achieved another significant milestone, being selected to power the Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) platform and services. Accenture provides these services to hundreds of enterprise customers globally, helping them make smarter and faster decisions by visualizing the relationships between malicious actors, their tools, and the vulnerabilities they exploit.

While the Cyware team is thrilled with this significant opportunity, it also represents another step forward in its mission to enable Collective Defense across a wide range of communities. Cyware does this by automating threat intelligence management, dissemination of timely security information to all stakeholders, and orchestration of intelligence-driven response across security ecosystems. Cyware’s hub-and-spoke threat intelligence sharing model has already been adopted by over 85% of ISACs supporting healthcare, automotive, aviation, aerospace, education, maritime, and other critical infrastructure industry sectors. Cyware’s platform has also been deployed for intelligence sharing in private sector distributed organizations, insurance providers, sports franchises, and corporate supply chains.

Why Accenture chose Cyware

The goal of ACTI is to provide context-rich threat intelligence and information, so that its clients can enhance their ability to detect and prevent threats before they escalate. To accomplish this, they need to provide a comprehensive set of threat intelligence data, technical capabilities, and appropriate processes to deal with threats effectively.

Accenture already provides its ACTI clients with custom information on vulnerabilities, threat indicators, IP reputation, risky domains/URLs, and other cyber intelligence information and alerts. To expand the offering, Accenture was looking for the ability to automatically analyze threats, prioritize alerts, and deliver easily consumable, and actionable security data to its clients. Through a rigorous selection process, Accenture chose Cyware because of its extensive threat management capabilities and unique ability to automate intelligence sharing across multiple trusted communities.

Accenture clearly understands the need to deliver the next generation of cybersecurity to its clients. According to their blog:

In the past year, security strategies and practices have been tested like never before. Security leaders need to accelerate resilience, adapt to changes and make sure the C-suite is fully on board to support and promote their approach. Having the right intelligence at the right time can make all the difference.

Accenture chose Cyware’s Intel Exchange (CTIX) platform that automates the ingestion, analysis, prioritization, dissemination, and orchestration of critical threat data. In addition, Cyware’s Collaborate (CSAP) solution enables bidirectional sharing of strategic and operational threat intelligence alerts, vulnerability, and malware advisories to enhance threat operations and dramatically improve Intelligence sharing processes. In addition, Cyware provides the ability to orchestrate between any security tools, connect the dots on threats, and automate protective actions.

The rollout and roadmap with Accenture

Accenture has begun implementation of the Cyware platform and will soon roll this out to a range of beta customers. Within a few months, this is expected to expand to several hundred Accenture clients globally. The solution will provide analysis and prioritization of intelligence from multiple sources through the Intel Exchange (CTIX) platform. Security Advisories will be shared through Cyware Collaborate (CSAP), along with API-driven machine-to-machine intelligence.

As the service expands, Cyware will also provide capabilities to orchestrate automated responses. In addition, Accenture plans to resell the entire Cyware Cyber Fusion platform to major enterprise clients who want to deploy their own threat intelligence infrastructure.