About the sponsor: With Accenture, federal and defense agencies can experience improved cyber resilience and mitigate risk with complete, proactive and cost-effective approaches that meet their objectives for high performance. Backed by a global security practice and both public service and commercial experience, Accenture's cyber security team works with clients to solve cyber security challenges in the broader context of business, mission, organizational and change issues, rather than focusing solely on technology needs. The result is an integrated cyber security approach rooted in leading-edge solutions and best practices that bridge the public sector and commercial industry that eliminate common gaps across business operations, enterprise architecture, budget, compliance and acquisitions to address cyber threats holistically. Services include infrastructure, continuous monitoring, identity management, security code reviews, malware analysis, cyber intelligence, cyber forensics, mission resilience, business continuity, trusted application delivery, Internet Protocol Version 6 readiness and Federal Desktop Core Configuration compliance. Visit www.accenture.com/publicservice for more information.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 176,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009. Its home page is www.accenture.com