PRESS RELEASE
NEW YORK; Jan. 16, 2024 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and SandboxAQ are partnering to ship synthetic intelligence (AI) and quantum computing options to assist organizations establish and remediate cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
In accordance with current Accenture analysis, executives’ high concern for 2024 is the flexibility to adapt to developments in know-how and improvements comparable to AI. That is notable as a result of cybercriminals are utilizing AI-enabled instruments to advance ransomware assaults, receive person passwords and spear phish workers. To fend off these assaults, enterprises are transitioning to a zero-trust structure, which requires robust cryptographic administration.
Collectively, Accenture and SandboxAQ will present complete AI-enabled cryptographic administration leveraging SandboxAQ’s Safety Suite. The answer will allow organizations to scan all of their information, functions and community visitors to make sure that all of their information—whether or not on-premise or hosted through main cloud suppliers—is safe even when attackers break by means of firewalls and community endpoints. The objective is to assist corporations defend towards the rising menace of quantum computing-based decryption assaults, which is able to solely enhance as quantum computing continues to advance and pose even larger threats to encryption techniques.
“With the elevated use of AI and generative AI, cyberattacks have gotten extra focused and exact,” stated Paolo Dal Cin, international lead of Accenture Safety. “Our collaboration with SandboxAQ will higher equip organizations to defend towards a myriad of cybersecurity and quantum dangers earlier than a cyber adversary can strike.”
By way of the partnership, Accenture will assist purchasers leverage SandboxAQ’s AI and simulation options, that are at the moment getting used to speed up drug discovery and advance supplies science, and SandboxAQ’s quantum sensing options, that are being examined in geomagnetic navigation techniques and next-generation medical imaging units.
“Cyberattacks are on the rise and are severely impacting enterprises and governments,” stated Jack D. Hidary, CEO of SandboxAQ. “With Accenture, we’ll have the ability to present complete cryptographic administration options that can defend their purchasers towards each present and future threats. We will even be working with Accenture on different merchandise together with next-gen AI simulation.”
Accenture and SandboxAQ are at the moment serving to a world nonprofit well being group mitigate its quantum danger. They’re taking a multi-phased method to reinforce the group’s quantum safety technique and uncover essentially the most at-risk makes use of of cryptography throughout its networks, third events and distributors in addition to their public networks in additional than 100 international locations. This method will assist the nonprofit cut back its dangers from newly susceptible cryptographic protocols, decrease its total working prices and cut back the time to deploy lifesaving well being options.
To assist preserve safety in a post-quantum world, Accenture has developed an eight-step roadmap and partnered with or invested in a number of main know-how suppliers. These new ventures, together with the collaboration with SandboxAQ, will assist Accenture present purchasers with know-how to safe their information and communications. Working with different {industry} leaders, Accenture has designed a Quantum Safety Maturity Index to provide company boards and executives a option to measure their quantum safety infrastructure towards their friends and establish areas for enchancment.
About Accenture
Accenture is a number one international skilled providers firm that helps the world’s main companies, governments and different organizations construct their digital core, optimize their operations, speed up income progress and improve citizen providers—creating tangible worth at velocity and scale. We’re a talent- and innovation-led firm with roughly 743,000 folks serving purchasers in additional than 120 international locations. Know-how is on the core of change at this time, and we’re one of many world’s leaders in serving to drive that change, with robust ecosystem relationships. We mix our energy in know-how and management in cloud, information and AI with unmatched {industry} expertise, practical experience and international supply functionality. We’re uniquely capable of ship tangible outcomes due to our broad vary of providers, options and property throughout Technique & Consulting, Know-how, Operations, Trade X and Tune. These capabilities, along with our tradition of shared success and dedication to creating 360° worth, allow us to assist our purchasers reinvent and construct trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° worth we create for our purchasers, one another, our shareholders, companions and communities. Go to us at www.accenture.com.
Accenture Safety is a number one supplier of end-to-end cybersecurity providers, together with technique, safety, resilience and industry-specific cyber providers. We convey safety innovation, coupled with international scale and a worldwide supply functionality by means of our community of Cyber Fusion Facilities. Helped by our workforce of 20,000 extremely expert professionals, we allow purchasers to innovate safely, construct cyber resilience and develop with confidence. Go to us at accenture.com/safety.
About SandboxAQ
SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS firm, offering options on the nexus of AI and Quantum know-how (AQ) to deal with a few of the world’s best challenges. The corporate’s core workforce and inspiration fashioned at Alphabet Inc., rising as an unbiased, growth-capital-backed firm in 2022. SandboxAQ is backed by T. Rowe Worth, Eric Schmidt (chairman of SandboxAQ), Breyer Capital, Guggenheim Companions, Marc Benioff, Thomas Tull, Paladin Capital Group, and different main traders. For extra info, go to https://www.sandboxaq.com.
