17 December 2024
- As a worldwide technology leader, Accenture provides strong cybersecurity expertise to defence additive manufacturing for DISCMAM, ensuring that the solutions created adhere to compliance and technical standards.
The development of a cyber-secure digital supply chain for additive manufacturing presents a significant challenge for DISCMAM. This project aims not only to achieve operational success but also to enhance the innovation capacity of the defense sector, fostering the adoption of cutting-edge technologies.
In this context, cybersecurity is a top priority for the project, supported by a team of experts from Accenture, a global technology company with extensive experience in strategic security. This partner ensures that the project aligns seamlessly with essential technical standards, cybersecurity protocols, and compliance requirements, tailoring digital solutions to meet stringent defence specifications. Moreover, they will guarantee the design of robust strategies to protect every aspect of the additive manufacturing process, enhancing resilience throughout the entire production lifecycle.
Accenture: Technological leadership and cybersecurity expertise
Accenture has established itself as a leading global professional services company, empowering some of the world’s foremost organizations to build their digital core and optimize operations. With a focus on accelerating revenue growth and enhancing services, Accenture creates tangible value at speed and scale.
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the company stands out as a leader in driving change, leveraging strong relationships within a vast ecosystem. By combining its expertise in technology, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence with extensive industry experience and functional knowledge, the company offers unmatched global delivery capabilities. Thus, Accenture’s comprehensive suite of services spans Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X, and Song.
Among its teams, DISCMAM is supported by a group of highly skilled professionals leveraging their extensive experience in managing cybersecurity projects. Mariano García Guerrero, the Security Delivery Manager at Accenture, orchestrates the company’s resources to ensure the successful achievement of all project objectives.
The project also benefits from the technical focus of Jose Miguel Colmena de Celis, Security Cloud Manager at the company, who designs cutting-edge security solutions tailored to the unique challenges posed by additive manufacturing scenarios. His deep expertise in cloud security is instrumental in addressing the specific security needs of this innovative technology.
Completing the multidisciplinary group is Egilde Sequera De Valery, a Senior Security Analyst, who brings invaluable expertise in security compliance to the project.
Together, this exceptional working group is committed to reinforcing cybersecurity measures within DISCMAM’s digital supply chain, ultimately enhancing the resilience and safety of additive manufacturing processes.
Challenges in establishing innovative cybersecurity solutions
Accenture is committed to bring a robust cybersecurity perspective to additive manufacturing in defence contexts as part of its role in the DISCMAM project. This involves identifying potential digital threats that could compromise the environment and crafting innovative cybersecurity solutions to effectively mitigate these risks, ensuring secure and resilient operations.
As the initiative approaches its first anniversary, one of the biggest challenges of the company has been uncovering the technical requirements needed for IT solutions in defence settings. This task is particularly complex due to the sensitive nature of the information involved.
Additionally, the Accenture technicians have invested considerable effort into understanding the IT processes involved in additive manufacturing use cases. This comprehensive understanding is vital to developing effective and tailored cybersecurity solutions for these advanced manufacturing scenarios.
Designing a cybersecurity architecture for these services often requires implementing changes in the AM process to ensure all risks are addressed.
As García Guerrero outlines,
“Traditionally, AM scenarios are managed locally, with on-site IT systems and human specialists in a controlled environment. The challenge in this project is to transform the AM process so it can be operated remotely while maintaining cybersecurity in a more open and interconnected environment”.