Accenture plans to purchase one of the world’s first threat intelligence companies to gain faster and more complete knowledge of emerging security challenges.
The Dublin, Ireland-based company, No. 2 on the CRN Solution Provider 500, said buying Reston, Va.-based iDefense Security Intelligence Services will get Accenture closer to where threats are actually propagating.
This will help shorten the time between what’s happening in the wild and when Accenture starts devising plans to thwart an emerging threat, according to Ryan LaSalle, Accenture Security’s managing director of growth and strategy.
