{"id":233551,"date":"2026-06-18T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/accenture-strikes-4-18-billion-cybersecurity-deal-shares-fall-on-weak-forecast\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:30:20","slug":"accenture-strikes-4-18-billion-cybersecurity-deal-shares-fall-on-weak-forecast","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-weak-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture strikes $4.18 billion cybersecurity deal, shares fall on weak forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/technology\/articles\/accenture-majority-stake-acquire-cybersecurity-104339001.html\">Accenture strikes $4.18 billion cybersecurity deal, shares fall on weak forecast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/technology\/articles\/accenture-majority-stake-acquire-cybersecurity-104339001.html\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/technology\/articles\/accenture-majority-stake-acquire-cybersecurity-104339001.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-18 06:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"finance.yahoo.com\">finance.yahoo.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; Accenture unveiled $4.18 billion in cybersecurity acquisitions on Thursday to push deeper into the booming sector, as a weak \u200csales forecast sent its shares down 14% and underscored the \u200cpressure AI tools exert on its consulting business.   The premarket drop followed the company&#8217;s fourth-quarter \u200brevenue forecast that was below estimates as well as lowered annual sales expectations. Shares of rivals Infosys and Cognizant fell 3.8% and 4.4% before the U.S. opening bell, while Capgemini slid 6.8% in Paris.          Geopolitical and economic uncertainty \u200chave in recent months \u2060hit demand for IT projects, while concerns that autonomous AI tools could displace traditional software services have weighed on \u2060valuations across the consulting sector.   Accenture said it would take a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos and fully acquire asset intelligence company runZero and \u200bdevice security \u200bspecialist NetRise, in a combined deal \u200bthat will expand its $10 billion \u200ccybersecurity business.   While cybersecurity budgets remain focused on traditional IT systems, greater internet connectivity and AI use are making factories, power grids and other critical infrastructure more vulnerable to hackers, drawing attention to tools that protect them.   The deals, expected to close in August or September pending regulatory approvals, \u200cwill add companies with a combined annual recurring \u200brevenue of $208 million to Accenture&#8217;s offerings.   Accenture now \u200bexpects annual revenue growth between \u200b3% and 4%, down from its previous forecast of \u200c3% to 5%.   It forecast fourth-quarter revenue \u200bbetween $17.75 billion and $18.4 \u200bbillion, below analysts&#8217; average estimate of $18.47 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.   In the third quarter, the company reported new bookings of $19.3 \u200bbillion, down about 2% \u200cfrom the same quarter last year. Revenue rose 6% to $18.72 billion, \u200bmissing estimates of $18.75 billion.   (Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru; Editing \u200bby Vijay Kishore and Maju Samuel)<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accenture strikes $4.18 billion cybersecurity deal, shares fall on weak forecast https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/technology\/articles\/accenture-majority-stake-acquire-cybersecurity-104339001.html Publish Date: 2026-06-18&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/reuters-finance.com\/113ecc60d5234d8beaf0b1dbe6a64554","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24],"class_list":["post-233551","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\/233551"}],"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=233551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233553,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233551\/revisions\/233553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}