US charges former Accenture employee with misleading feds on cloud platform’s security

The Justice Department charged former Accenture Federal Services product manager Danielle Hillmer with obstructing audits and making materially false statements to portray a federal cloud platform as compliant with FedRAMP and DoD RMF, allegedly directing colleagues to hide security gaps to secure and retain government approvals. Accenture states it self-reported and is cooperating with investigators, while prosecutors highlight the case as part of a broader crackdown on cyber-related procurement fraud in which contractors overstate compliance to win and preserve federal business.