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

The Justice Department charged a former product manager at Accenture Federal Services with falsely misleading government customers about the security posture of a cloud product offered by the company.

From March 2020 to November 2021, Danielle Hillmer allegedly obstructed federal auditors and falsely represented that an Accenture cloud platform for federal use had required security controls in place, according to indictment documents. 

The documents do not name specific companies she was employed at, but a scan of what appears to be her LinkedIn profile shows she managed cloud services products at Accenture’s federal consulting arm at the same time the alleged activity took place.

She was most recently employed at SentinelOne, a cybersecurity firm, according to the LinkedIn profile. A SentinelOne spokesperson said she’s “not been employed with us for a while” and that the actions in the indictment “are totally unrelated to her employment here.” 

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