{"id":1015528,"date":"2026-06-19T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015528"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:07:43","slug":"accenture-strikes-4-18-billion-cybersecurity-deal-shares-fall-on-forecast-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/19\/accenture-strikes-4-18-billion-cybersecurity-deal-shares-fall-on-forecast-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture strikes $4.18 billion cybersecurity deal, shares fall on forecast cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consultancy firm Accenture said on Thursday it would take a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos and fully acquire asset intelligence company runZero \u200cand \u2060device security \u2060specialist NetRise in a combined deal valued at $4.18 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of Accenture fell over 11% in premarket trading as the company cut the top end of its annual revenue growth forecast range, signaling businesses wary of \u2060an uncertain economy \u200care curtailing spending on discretionary IT consulting projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consultancy firm Accenture said on Thursday it would take a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos and fully acquire asset intelligence company runZero \u200cand \u2060device security \u2060specialist NetRise in a combined deal valued at $4.18 billion. Shares of Accenture fell over 11% in premarket trading as the company cut the top end of its annual revenue growth forecast range, signaling businesses wary of \u2060an uncertain economy \u200care curtailing spending on discretionary IT consulting projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015549,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015528\/revisions\/1015549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}