Accenture

Company acquired: Endgame's Federal Service Business

Head count: undisclosed

Annual revenue: undisclosed

Purchase price: undisclosed

Date of announcement: Feb. 8

In another move towards its goal of building a $1 billion security practice, Accenture struck a deal to acquire the federal services business of Arlington, Va.–based threat-detection company Endgame, Inc.

Following the close of the deal, Endgame's federal government services business will be tucked into Accenture's Federal Services group, boosting the company's federal security organization with an additional team of highly skilled cybersecurity professionals.

The acquisition of Endgame, which specializes in proactive cyber defense, builds off of an agreement that Accenture made with Endgame back in March, when the Dublin-based solution provider bought a minority share of Endgame and began reselling some of its security solutions.

As a part of the acquisition of Endgame's federal government services business, Accenture has agreed to reinforce its existing agreement with the company, and will resell its endpoint detection and response (EDR) platform.