In the next five years intelligent automation and the liquid workforce will bring significant changes in how security professionals work and how they use technology to defend and empower the enterprise. What are the next steps leadership should take to prepare for the future security workforce?

1. Security Technology Vision 2016
Empowering Your
Cyber Defenders to
Enable Digital Trust

2. The digital economy introduces new risks and threats
to challenge cyber defender capabilities…
Pace of
change
New
technologies
Changing
workforce models
Increased
connectedness
Huge scale
of software
operations
Expanded
attack surfaces
More sophisticated,
higher volume
of attacks
Ongoing
privacy concerns
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3. … and attackers are overwhelming
organizations that lack skilled resources
to properly defend the enterprise
• Attackers use increasingly sophisticated tools and
techniques to target businesses
• 45 percent of companies say they have difficulty
finding qualified security personnel
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Underpinning all of this change is the mandate
to boost security’s effectiveness in supporting
the business’ efforts to attain digital trust.

4. Technology alone cannot resolve
enterprise security threats
To establish robust security capabilities,
organizations need the right skills at the right level at
the right time and to:
• Scale quickly to meet new challenges in cyber defense
• Attract and retain highly skilled resources
• Elevate their existing workforce with enhanced skills
and supporting technology to reach new levels of
performance
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5. In the next five years intelligent automation and the liquid
workforce will bring significant changes in how security
professionals work and how they use technology to defend
and empower the enterprise
Intelligent
Automation
Outsized impact on the security workforce
Liquid
Workforce
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6. Intelligent automation applies artificial intelligence,
process automation and visualization to enhance a
security professional’s capabilities
Artificial intelligence (AI)
• Helps security professionals understand the larger context
of a threat
• Supports process automation, allowing security teams
to execute automated actions as threats emerge and evolve
Visualization
• Harnesses the human ability to recognize patterns quickly
and pick out anomalies
• Helps professionals quickly understand cascades of data
• Provides real-time views of the entire enterprise with
advanced graphics processing
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7. The liquid workforce reduces challenges in accessing
scarce security talent by enabling more flexible
workforce arrangements
• Freelancing, crowdsourcing and broad-based collaboration
will offer a much larger pool of security expertise to
organizations.
• Outsourcing security jobs will require that organizations
leverage service providers they trust and who bring well-
vetted resources to the table.
• Accenture believes 40% of a business’ entire workforce will
be freelance by 2020.
• Enterprises should maintain a core of highly-skilled security
people that are augmented with outside resources.
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8. What are the next steps leadership should take to
prepare for the future security workforce?
Identify repetitive and low-impact activities that can be automated to
scale security effectiveness.
Look for security challenges where automated decisions make sense
and where quick action can reduce the cost of security incidents.
Increase visual literacy and focus on presenting security-related data in
compelling and insightful ways.
Evaluate where a liquid workforce approach could help: address chronic
staffing issues, fill a short-term skilled role, or support teams with a
broader perspective on data.
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9. To find out more please visit
www.accenture.com/SecurityVision
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