Accenture and Anthropic to help organizations secure, scale AI-driven cybersecurity operations

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.

“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."