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Agent Oliver, Accenture cybersecurity AI innovation

Accenture’s information security team faced what could be described as a fundamental scaling challenge: the enterprise attack surface included hundreds of thousands of internet-facing sites. Manually reviewing each site for common security issues required 15 minutes per site, meaning that scaling this process across the entire attack surface would take years for a resource-constrained team. Solution Agent Oliver is an advanced AI capability that has transformed how Accenture manages its external attack surface. It combines two distinct toolsets into a single capability: - The Automated Site Crawler tool automatically scans the enterprise’s internet-facing sites, visits each site and flags compliance issues (e.g. missing multifactor authentication). – The Automated Web Application Tester tool tests web applications using four coordinated execution agents: crawlers map the application, configuration agents check settings, injection agents probe for vulnerabilities and a reporter consolidates the findings into a single report with recommendations for mitigating identified risks.

Impact / Outcome
Agent Oliver was deployed across more than 100,000 sites. The time required to analyse each site dropped from approximately 15 minutes to under one minute, resulting in a 93% reduction in manual effort. This enabled security engineers to focus their time on more complex tasks.
Key Metrics
The time required to analyse each site dropped from approximately 15 minutes to under one minute, resulting in a 93% reduction in manual effort.
Locations
Europe, Ireland
Sector
Other
Year published
04 May 2026
Organization involved
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Accenture