Accenture has hired Kelly Bissell as the head of Accenture Security. Mr. Bissell comes to Accenture from Deloitte & Touche, where he headed the global Cyber Risk division...

Accenture has acquired Maglan, a privately-held Israeli cybersecurity company specializing in offensive cyber simulation, vulnerability countermeasures, cyber forensics and malware defenses. Financial terms of...

Accenture is acquiring OPS Rules, an analytics consulting company specializing in the application of data science in supply chain and operations analytics. Founded in 2012, OPS Rules has offices in Waltham, Massachusetts and Richardson, Texas. OPS Rules chairman David Simchi-Levi, a professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, will join Accenture Analytics, part of Accenture Digital. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Accenture has appointed Arun Sarin to the company’s board of directors. Mr. Sarin, 61, was chief executive officer of Vodafone from 2003 until his retirement...

Amadeus, a supplier of IT solutions for the travel and tourism industry, has agreed to acquire Navitaire, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture that provides technology...