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UPDATED 22:15 EDT / APRIL 08 2020

SECURITY

Accenture acquires cybersecurity firm Revolutionary Security

Accenture plc today said it has acquired the privately held cybersecurity firm Revolutionary Security for an undisclosed price.

The company had raised a single round of $2.5 million prior to acquisition.

Founded in 2016, Revolutionary Security offers a range of cybersecurity products including risk assessment, breach and attack simulation testing, insider threat assessments and framework bases assessment. The company also offers vulnerability management, cyber threat intelligence, cloud security and operational technology defense.

The company’s LiveFire attack simulation testing service uses real-world cybersecurity threats to identify gaps in security processes and monitoring, as well as staff operations and technologies.

Revolutionary Security provides services to a range of clients in energy, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services and communications. The company employs 90 people in its office in Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania.

For Accenture, the acquisition will be used to strengthen the firm’s security products and help clients with complex information technology and OT requirements.

“The acquisition of Revolutionary Security is another demonstration of our continued commitment to invest in areas to keep our clients safe from cyber threats,” Kelly Bissell, head of Accenture Security said in a statement. “Revolutionary Security’s service offerings are a perfect complement to Accenture’s portfolio, and the acquisition furthers our mission of helping clients better protect and defend their organizations across their entire ecosystem.”

The deal is another in a growing list of acquisitions in cybersecurity by Accenture. Recent acquisitions include Context Information Security in March and Symantec’s Cyber Security Services in January. Previous acquisitions include Deja vu Security, iDefense Security Intelligence Services, Maglan, Redcore, Arismore and FusionX.

Speaking to SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE in February, Lisa O’Connor, managing director of security research and development at Accenture, explained that the company is developing what it calls a “cyber digital twin” strategy to stimulate potential attack scenarios.

“There’s so much we can’t do in our production networks,” she said. “We don’t have the capabilities on the security operations center team side to ingest all this stuff. We need a playground where we can ask the what-ifs, where we can run high-performance analytics, and we do that through a temporal knowledge graph. That’s a hard thing to achieve, and it’s a hard thing to do analytics at scale.”

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