Accenture shells out $4.18B on three companies in big industrial cybersecurity push

Accenture announced it will acquire a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos for $3.25 billion and purchase runZero and NetRise, investing roughly $4.18 billion to expand into OT/xOT security. The move consolidates asset-discovery, firmware/supply-chain visibility and industrial threat intelligence under an independent Dragos entity within Accenture as the company shifts toward software-led OT defenses amid growing AI-driven risks to critical infrastructure.