Accenture and Anthropic Team to Help Organizations Secure, Scale AI-Driven Cybersecurity Operations

Key Terms

identity and access management technical

Identity and access management is the set of tools and processes that verify who a person or device is and control what digital resources they can use, like a company’s system for issuing security badges and setting which doors each badge opens. It matters to investors because strong identity controls reduce the chance of costly data breaches, regulatory fines and downtime, protect customer trust, and can lower IT costs and operational risk.

iam technical

Identity and access management (IAM) is the system and policies a company uses to control who can access its digital systems, data and applications—think of it as the set of keys, locks and visitor rules for a building’s computer network. Strong IAM reduces the risk of data breaches, fraud and regulatory fines, so investors pay attention because weaknesses can lead to costly outages, damage to reputation and legal liabilities that affect a company’s value.

runtime protection technical

Runtime protection is a set of security measures that monitor and block malicious activity while software or devices are actively running, much like a security guard watching a building in real time and stopping intruders as they appear. For investors, it matters because effective runtime protection reduces the risk of data breaches, service outages and regulatory fines, helping preserve a company's revenue, reputation and ongoing product reliability.

apis technical

APIs are sets of rules that let different software systems talk to each other, like standardized doorways that let apps, data services and websites exchange information without needing to be rebuilt each time. For investors, APIs matter because they speed product development, enable digital partnerships and data feeds, create new revenue or cost savings, and introduce operational or security dependencies that can affect growth and risk.

attack surfaces technical

The collection of places and ways a company’s systems, products, people or suppliers can be accessed or exploited by criminals or hackers—think of it as all the doors, windows and hidden crawlspaces a burglar could use to get inside. Investors care because a larger or poorly managed attack surface makes breaches, downtime, regulatory fines and reputational damage more likely, which can reduce revenue, increase costs and hurt a company’s stock value.

autonomous ai agents technical

Autonomous AI agents are software programs powered by artificial intelligence that can carry out tasks, make decisions, and learn from results with little or no human supervision—think of them as a robotic employee or a self-driving car for digital work. They matter to investors because they can lower operating costs, speed up decision-making, and create new revenue opportunities, while also introducing risks around errors, oversight, and regulation that can affect a company’s performance and valuation.

agentic ai technical

Agentic AI refers to computer systems that can make their own decisions and take actions without needing someone to tell them what to do each time. It's like giving a robot a degree of independence to solve problems or achieve goals on its own, which matters because it could change how we work and interact with technology in everyday life.

NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- RSA 2026--Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has launched Cyber.AI, a new solution powered by Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, that enables organizations to transform their security operations, moving from human-speed response to continuous AI-driven cyber capabilities.

Accenture has launched Cyber.AI, a new solution powered by Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, that enables organizations to transform their security operations, moving from human-speed response to continuous AI-driven cyber capabilities.

By combining Accenture’s extensive library of proprietary agents with Claude, Cyber.AI builds on more than two decades of Accenture cybersecurity delivery expertise. Together, Cyber.AI and Accenture’s 30,000+ cybersecurity professionals can help clients move faster and make informed decisions at scale. It includes Agent Shield, part of the Cyber.AI Secure AI and Agents capabilities, which helps organizations protect, identify, monitor and govern autonomous AI agents in real-time.

Claude serves as the reasoning engine at the core of Cyber.AI, helping synthesize security data and provide contextual insights across the security lifecycle. Within Cyber.AI, its agentic capabilities support automated workflows by enhancing reasoning, analysis, and decision-making. Cyber.AI leverages Claude’s built-in safety guardrails and enhances them with enterprise-grade governance and controls, including Agent Shield, helping to ensure agents operate in line with organizational policies and risk tolerance.

This solution comes as organizations face a structural shift in the threat landscape. Nearly nine in 10 organizations identify AI-related vulnerabilities as the fastest-growing cyber risk, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Cyber Outlook Report 2026, produced in collaboration with Accenture.

“Adversaries are using AI to compress attack timelines from weeks to hours, while traditional controls are built for human-speed threats,” said Damon McDougald, global Cybersecurity Services lead at Accenture. “With Anthropic's Claude at the core of Cyber.AI, we can help organizations operate at machine speed and scale, while ensuring the AI systems they deploy are secure and governed from day one.”

Cyber.AI helps organizations protect complex digital environments and manage expanding attack surfaces with greater consistency, without increasing manual effort. By accelerating activities across the cybersecurity lifecycle, from design and deployment through detection and response, the solution helps deliver faster, more measurable outcomes and improve overall cybersecurity posture. It’s an Accenture solution that enables more proactive, intelligence-driven operations while integrating seamlessly with any existing technology environment.

Cyber.AI is demonstrating real-world results across industries. A global Fortune 500 agriculture organization leveraged Cyber.AI agentic capabilities to enhance its identity and access management (IAM) operations and accelerate identity platform migrations with greater precision and confidence. This approach is automating complex cybersecurity processes, strengthening resilience and fundamentally transforming how the organization operates IAM at scale.

By orchestrating AI-driven “missions”, from assessments and triage to remediation and transformation, Cyber.AI helps teams to identify and deploy the right agents to automate specific tasks across the cybersecurity lifecycle. The solution draws from a curated library of agents spanning critical domains such as identity security, cyber defense, secure digital core and cyber resiliency. Within Cyber.AI’s Secure AI and Agents capabilities, Agent Shield will deliver identity controls, threat detection and runtime protection to help secure and govern AI systems at scale.

“Cybersecurity demands AI that can reason across vast amounts of data, act autonomously through complex workflows, and operate within strict governance boundaries,” said Michael Moore, Head of Cybersecurity Products at Anthropic. “That’s what Claude was built for—and it's why we're seeing security operations as one of the most impactful applications of agentic AI. Accenture is putting that to work at scale for some of the world's most complex enterprises.”

Accenture has already deployed Cyber.AI within its own global IT infrastructure to secure 1,600 applications and over 500,000 APIs, resulting in a significant shift in operational efficiency and risk reduction. Through this deployment, scan turnaround times were reduced from three to five days to under one hour, while security testing coverage expanded from approximately 10% to over 80%. This increased efficiency allowed for a dramatic reduction in the backlog of critical vulnerabilities. Additionally, service delivery improved by 35% contributing to consistent year-over-year cost reductions.

“As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are facing a fragmented cybersecurity landscape driven by the rapid growth of non-human identities and autonomous agents,” said Craig Robinson, Research Vice President, IDC. “To keep pace, organizations need to orchestrate agents across their security ecosystem with coordination and scale. With Cyber.AI, Accenture and Anthropic are helping clients modernize their defense operations through purpose-built, on-demand agentic AI security, reshaping how cybersecurity teams will operate.”

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