Accenture and CrowdStrike have joined forces to drive cybersecurity transformation, empowering clients to confidently navigate the next wave of digital innovation and business growth.
This collaboration integrates Accenture’s advanced security services with the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform, which includes cloud security, identity protection, and next-generation security information and event management (SIEM). By leveraging this synergy, organizations can achieve significant enhancements in security operations (SecOps), continuous threat exposure management, and AI-powered workload protection. The result is real-time threat visibility, prevention, and remediation, all while optimizing operational costs.
“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 businesses increasingly shift to cloud-based and AI-enabled operations, the vast volume of data generated can overwhelm traditional security solutions. Security teams often struggle with outdated technology and disparate security tools, which hinders their ability to detect and respond to threats effectively. This fragmented security landscape slows down efforts to safeguard businesses and their customers from cyberattacks.
A notable example of the collaboration’s impact is WHSmith, a leading global travel retailer with over 1,700 stores across more than 30 countries. To bolster its security operations, WHSmith has adopted Accenture’s Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR) services alongside the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. This integration provides comprehensive visibility across WHSmith’s global operations, delivering advanced protection, detection, and response capabilities from corporate networks to in-store cash registers.
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Jon Begley, Global CISO, WHSmith Group, said, “The collaboration between Accenture and CrowdStrike is helping us improve threat visibility across our global business while maintaining a responsive and agile security operation to protect our digital assets. This means we can focus on growing our global travel retail business further and offering a leading experience in our stores for customers on their journeys across the world.”
“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. 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.”
The combined capabilities of Accenture and CrowdStrike provide businesses with an integrated cybersecurity approach, consolidating multiple security tools, reducing costs, and enhancing detection and response capabilities. Key areas of impact include:
- SecOps Modernization – This initiative streamlines security operations by integrating threat prevention, detection, and response into a unified system based on CrowdStrike’s Next-Gen SIEM technology. By leveraging AI-driven automation and security workflow optimization, organizations can achieve up to 30% cost savings.
- Managed Detection and Response – A seamless fusion of Accenture’s expertise and the Falcon platform enables faster threat detection, investigation, and response. Enhanced by integrated AI solutions, this approach can improve workflow efficiency by up to 60% for SecOps applications.
- Continuous Threat Exposure Management – Helps organizations redefine vulnerability management strategies while maximizing investments in personnel, processes, and tools. By consolidating visibility across the attack surface and using attack path analysis, businesses can simplify processes, reduce security tooling complexity, and realize up to 15% cost optimization.
By uniting Accenture’s strategic security services with CrowdStrike’s cutting-edge technology, this collaboration is poised to reshape cybersecurity operations, delivering proactive defense solutions that enhance resilience in an increasingly complex digital landscape.
