Accenture, OpenAI: This Week's Top Five Stories in Cyber
Acquisitions Signal Accenture's Bold Bet on Cybersecurity
Accenture is making sweeping moves to strengthen its US$10bn cybersecurity business through a number of strategic acquisitions.
Expanding its operational technology (OT) cyber capabilities, the professional services giant has acquired a majority stake in Dragos and the full acquisition of runZero and NetRise.
The move is intended to help organisations protect critical infrastructure from growing AI-driven cyber threats and geopolitical risks.
By bringing together OT threat detection, asset intelligence and software supply chain security into a single platform, the combined offering is designed to secure power grids, pipelines, manufacturing facilities, distribution centres and data centres while providing organisations with greater visibility across OT environments.
Fighting Financial Fraud with SEON's Nauman Abuzar
Speaking at Money20/20 Europe, Nauman Abuzar, VP of Risk and Compliance at SEON, described how the company is repositioning fraud prevention as an intelligence-led discipline rather than a rules-based exercise.
SEON has launched an MCP-enabled AI capability designed to transform how compliance teams interact with risk data.
Nauman explains: "We have been working closely with our customers to understand their challenges and we see that, for compliance teams and analysts, the challenge is not just managing alerts but having a more contextual view of those customers and transactions."
The platform now allows security teams to configure and integrate with AI tools such as Claude and Gemini.
He continues: "This will give them a much stronger context, generate a more thorough narrative and provide a pretty holistic view of the customer and analysis."
Diving Into Fortinet's Unified Agentic AI Platform FortiSOC
Calling on the power of agentic AI, Fortinet has unveiled FortiSOC – a new cloud-delivered security operations centre (SOC) platform designed to help organisations simplify cyber defence while improving threat detection and response.
This novel software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform binds together six key security operations capabilities into a single console, embedding agentic AI to manage investigations, automate workflows and respond to threats more efficiently.
It is no secret that cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated, thereby creating an explosion of investigation volume, while many organisations struggle with fragmented security tools that add to operational complexity.
FortiSOC addresses this challenge by combining security information and event management (SIEM), security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR), threat intelligence and identity threat detection into one unified platform.
“Security teams today are being challenged by faster attacks, growing investigation volume and fragmented operations that simply don’t scale,” says Michael Xie, Founder, President and CTO at Fortinet.
“FortiSOC gives organisations a simpler way to operationalise the SOC capabilities they need through a unified, cloud-delivered platform."
How OpenAI’s Daybreak Solves Cyber Patching Bottleneck
While frontier AI models rapidly accelerate vulnerability discovery across the digital landscape, the primary bottleneck shifts from finding flaws to managing the overwhelming volume of uncovered security issues.
Real risk reduction only comes from validating issues, understanding impact, testing patches and coordinating deployment.
To address this challenge, OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity programme, including new tools, ecosystem partnerships and the full version of the GPT-5.5-Cyber model.
This initiative is aimed at helping approved defenders close security gaps before malicious actors can exploit them.
By democratising patching at machine speed, Daybreak, which was first released in May, provides the tools required to keep systems secure as the cyber threat landscape continues to accelerate.
NatWest’s James Hodgson on Security for Open Banking
Cyber threats are intensifying and Open Banking is reshaping the payments industry.
In light of this, financial institutions are under growing pressure to balance innovation with security.
Established banks, in particular, face the challenge of competing with fintech disruptors while maintaining trust, resilience and regulatory rigour.
In an in-depth interview, James Hodgson, CEO of Payit and Tyl by NatWest, explains how NatWest has positioned itself as a fintech leader by investing in Open Banking while drawing on the scale, expertise and security foundations of a major UK bank.
