Telecommunications Giant Vodacom Announces Its Partnership With Ireland-based IT Services Company Accenture
Telecommunications Giant Vodacom Announces Its Partnership With Ireland-based IT Services Company Accenture. Telecommunications giant Vodacom has announced its partnership with Ireland based IT services company Accenture to launch Vodacom Managed Security Services by Vodacom Business and Accenture.
The Vodacom Managed Security Services, while tailored for both small and medium-sized businesses, are scalable to large enterprises and initially focus on business needs to simplify cybersecurity and ransomware risk. The companies have taken a differentiated approach to safety, offering cybersecurity-as-a-service to South African SMEs and cover assessment, protection, detection, and response. Under these four pillars clients can invest in seven modular offerings.
“Essentially, this solution brings world-class cybersecurity expertise to businesses that do not have the experience, time, or financial resources to keep up with the rapidly evolving threat landscape,” Boland Lithebe, Security Lead for Accenture in Africa said in a statement. Vodacom Managed Security Services is an extension of the existing Smart Service Offering partnership between Vodacom Business and Accenture. For Vodacom, this solution is an evolution of the managed cybersecurity strategy the company has been building over the last few years. Combining Vodacom Business’s expertise and insights with Accenture’s cybersecurity strategies, forensics and consulting services has resulted in a solution that will protect small and medium businesses from cyber threats.
“SMEs are crucial to our country’s economic growth and must be supported with simple and easy to deploy solutions to thrive in our increasingly digitised society. Businesses have become increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats that are growing in sophistication and require a smarter response to protect a company’s digital assets,” Kabelo Makwane, Managing Executive for Cloud, Hosting & Security at Vodacom Business said in a statement.
