IDC divides managed security services providers in Asia Pacific into leaders, major players and contenders

IDC has found five vendors - NTT Communications (NTT-C), IBM, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Verizon, and HP in the Leaders category for all managed security services providers (MSSPs) in Asia Pacific. The results are part of a new IDC MarketScape* report that covers the 16 most prominent players in the Asia Pacific managed security services market.

IDC also identified another group called Major Players which includes Symantec, BT, Wipro, Dimension Data, HCL, e-Cop, SingTel, Orange Business Services and AT&T. Meanwhile, Atos and Telstra are currently positioned as strong Contenders. IDC also concluded that all the identified providers offer a comprehensive portfolio for managed security services.

"Through in-depth interviews with MSSPs and more than 20 interviews with their customers, IDC learned that the MSSPs differ on their key go-to-market capabilities across the region. These capabilities include customer services, sales/distribution structure, pricing alignment, partnership and marketing," said Cathy Huang, Research Manager, Services and Cloud Research Group, IDC Asia/Pacific and the lead analyst for this study.

"IDC has also observed the growing prominence of cyber security being featured as a key topic in business conversations. We acknowledge that while CIOs demand security management that is effective, usable and affordable, its integration with their fast-changing IT infrastructure has become a more important requirement. We believe the introduction of advanced managed security services, commonly known as MSS 2.0, is necessary. We envision that this new breed of services will use big data analytics and automation technologies to meet the requirements for proactive and dynamic security solutions that would help address CIO’s evolving risk and security management challenges." 

Predicting that the 3rd Platform*-optimised security technologies and solutions will radically extend the 3rd Platform's capabilities and applications, IDC identified next-generation security as one of the innovation accelerators in its 2015 ICT predictions. This MarketScape study has also highlighted the evolution within the managed security services space - advising tech buyer organisations to acknowledge this evolution and identity the right MSSPs according to their specific needs.

Need context?

Read about the emergence of IDC's 3rd Platform as a concept in this TechTrade Asia blog post.


*The IDC MarketScape evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that highlights the key factors that are expected to be the most significant for aligning the vendor's capability to current needs as well as aligning vendor's strategy to future customer needs.