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Accenture pays for CSS injection from Symantec parent Broadcom: Yep, it bought its cybersecurity arm
2020-01-07 16:47

Symantec's parent Broadcom has offloaded its Cyber Security Services operation to Accenture for an undisclosed sum.

Some 300 staff are employed by the security services division, and presumably most, if not all, will shuffle off to their new employer in March, when the buy clears.

Cue the canned statement from Accenture Security's senior MD, Kelly Bissell, who talked about organisations facing an "Unprecedented volume of cyber threats that are highly sophisticated and targeted to their businesses, and they can no longer rely solely on generic solutions."

Symantec's CSS reckons it has services for sectors including utilities, financial, media, health, comms, media, technology and retail.

For its part, Accenture has snaffled a bunch of security outfits already that comprise the terribly named Deja vu Security, iDefense, Maglan, Redcore, Arismore and FusionX. The new entrant will join the fold if all goes according to plan.


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