FORTALEZA, Brazil and NEW YORK; Feb. 13, 2023 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Morphus, a privately held Brazil-based cyber protection, threat administration and cyber menace intelligence providers supplier, increasing its follow capabilities in Brazil and Latin America. Monetary phrases weren’t disclosed.
Based in 2003, Morphus is headquartered in Fortaleza, which is within the Ceará area in northeastern Brazil, with places of work in Recife, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago, Chile. Morphus’s end-to-end portfolio consists of purple and blue staff providers; governance, threat and compliance providers; enterprise threat administration; cyber technique; menace intelligence; and managed safety providers (MSS).
Based on Accenture’s latest Cyber Risk Intelligence analysis, Brazil is likely one of the prime victims of infostealer malware – a malicious software program designed to steal sufferer data reminiscent of passwords.
“Along with the capabilities and skilled management of Morphus, we’ll work as one staff to assist organizations construct a cyber resilient enterprise and higher safe their digital core, their know-how and provide chains,” mentioned Paolo Dal Cin, who leads Accenture Safety globally. “The acquisition brings greater than 230 extremely expert professionals, making Accenture one of many largest cybersecurity skilled providers suppliers in Brazil. Our purchasers are at all times on the lookout for the very best options to strengthen their cyber defenses, and the addition of Morphus expands our international analysis workforce and community of gifted, modern safety professionals.”
The acquisition expands Accenture’s portfolio and marks the launch of a Cyber Business follow in Latin America led by seasoned former CISOs from Morphus. The brand new choices additionally develop Accenture’s place in Progress Markets in Morphus’s main business teams: communications media and know-how, monetary providers, vitality, retail and aviation.
Rawlison Brito, CEO of Morphus, mentioned: “We consider that safety and science go hand-in-hand. With Accenture, we are able to proceed our cyber menace analysis and develop our superior research of cybersecurity by collaborating with safety analysis consultants on a world scale. We’re excited to hitch Accenture to supply our thought management and higher serve our purchasers by offering market-leading providers and stronger cyber protection safety in Latin America.”
With a robust footprint in Brazil and Chile, the acquisition brings to Accenture Morphus Labs, a analysis facility in Fortaleza devoted to cybersecurity research, vulnerability and menace evaluation and MSS. This may add a brand new Cyber Fusion Heart in Fortaleza to Accenture’s current international community, which incorporates Morphus’s cybersecurity R&D capabilities.
Andre Fleury, Accenture Safety lead for Latin America, mentioned: “The cybersecurity staff at Morphus will speed up the expansion of our Cyber Business follow within the area, practically doubling our safety footprint in Brazil. The acquisition enhances our international Safety follow and can allow us to assist our purchasers embed safety by design and improve the choices we offer throughout all kinds of industries in Latin America.”
Final yr, Accenture was acknowledged as a pacesetter in strategic safety providers and MSS in Brazil by ISG.
Since 2015, Accenture Safety has made 16 acquisitions. Following its January 2020 acquisition of Symantec’s Cyber Safety Companies enterprise, Accenture grew to become one of many main international suppliers of MSS. Accenture additional strengthened its cyber protection and MSS capabilities by way of the acquisition of Brazil-based Actual Defend, and European cyber corporations Sentor and Openminded in 2021.
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