{"id":233461,"date":"2026-06-18T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/accenture-strikes-4-18-billion-cybersecurity-deal-shares-fall-on-forecast-cut\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:35:11","slug":"accenture-strikes-4-18-billion-cybersecurity-deal-shares-fall-on-forecast-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/transactional\/accenture-take-majority-stake-acquire-cybersecurity-firms-418-billion-deal-2026-06-18\/\">Accenture strikes $4.18 billion cybersecurity deal, shares fall on forecast cut<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/transactional\/accenture-take-majority-stake-acquire-cybersecurity-firms-418-billion-deal-2026-06-18\/\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/transactional\/accenture-take-majority-stake-acquire-cybersecurity-firms-418-billion-deal-2026-06-18\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-18 07:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.reuters.com\">www.reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. June 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Consultancy firm Accenture (ACN.N), opens new tab said on Thursday it \u200bwould take a majority stake in industrial \u200ccybersecurity firm Dragos and fully acquire asset intelligence company runZero and device security specialist NetRise in a \u200bcombined deal valued at $4.18 billion.Shares of Accenture \u200bfell over 11% in premarket trading as \u2060the company cut the top end of \u200bits annual revenue growth forecast range, signaling businesses \u200bwary of an uncertain economy are curtailing spending on discretionary IT consulting projects. Sign up  here.The acquisitions will expand Accenture&#8217;s cybersecurity \u200bbusiness into software for protecting industrial operations \u200band critical infrastructure, including power grids, pipelines, factories and data \u200ccenters, \u2060amid rising AI-driven cyber threats and geopolitical tensions.The deals, expected to close in August or September pending regulatory approvals, will add companies with \u200bcombined annual \u200brecurring revenue \u2060of $208 million and build on Accenture&#8217;s $10 billion cybersecurity business.The company now expects \u200bannual revenue growth between 3% and \u200b4%, \u2060down from its previous forecast of 3% to 5%.Accenture expects fourth-quarter revenue between $17.75 billion and $18.4 billion, \u2060below \u200banalysts&#8217; average estimate of $18.47 billion, \u200baccording to data compiled by LSEG.Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore and Maju SamuelOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tabPurchase Licensing Rights<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accenture strikes $4.18 billion cybersecurity deal, shares fall on forecast cut https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/transactional\/accenture-take-majority-stake-acquire-cybersecurity-firms-418-billion-deal-2026-06-18\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-18&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resizer\/v2\/LOEE6PX2MZLXBFBZLBAQ3HCMLQ.jpg?auth=91b46b0edb8b55e261629182d20f790a1dae5e0fc620218137fe6d7adce9395a&height=1005&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24],"class_list":["post-233461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233463,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233461\/revisions\/233463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}