IDC releases two marketscapes on security vendors in Asia Pacific

IDC has published new reports on managed security and threat lifecycles in the Asia Pacific region.

IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Managed Security Services (MSS) 2018 Vendor Assessment  (IDC #AP42609818) provides a detailed evaluation of 19 managed security services providers that address the evolving regulatory environment, and the complex security challenges brought by digital/business transformation and rapidly broadening threat landscape.

The IDC MarketScape on Managed Security Services (MSS) focuses on the evaluation of managed security services providers' security offerings, including compliance management, security infrastructure management in hybrid environments, portfolio benefits, core platform's automation and orchestration capabilities, market execution, customer services.

The assessment named Accenture, BT, Deloitte, EY, IBM, NTT, Symantec, and Trustwave in the Leaders category of the managed security services market. DXC, Fujitsu, HCL, Orange Business Services, Quann, Secureworks, Verizon, Tata Communications, TCS, Telstra, and Wipro were placed in the Major Players category.

The emergence of the threat lifecycle services market is reflective of a major market shift in the overall security services market – from the traditional solution-focused, compliance-driven managed security services to threat-focused and intelligence-driven lifecycle security services.

This year the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Threat Lifecycle Services 2018 Vendor Assessment (IDC #AP43699718) analyses 17 providers which offer a range of threat lifecycle services that help organisations be more proactive in the preparation, detection and response to any incidents or threats and significantly enhance their cyber resilience.

Using the IDC MarketScape model, IDC studied 17 organisations in 2017–2018 that offer threat lifecycle services in Asia Pacific, although the majority of the participating companies deliver services worldwide.

The IDC MarketScape on Threat Lifecycle Services focuses on a set of professional security services, (including advisory, consulting and training services) such as security assessment, cyber range, incident response, threat intelligence services, and forensics services.

The IDC MarketScape on Threat Lifecycle Services assessment named Deloitte, EY, Fireye, Symantec, Verizon, and Secureworks in the Leaders category, defined as companies which differentiate themselves throughout the threat lifecycle. DXC, Fujitsu, HCL, Kaspersky, IBM, NTT, Quann, TCS, Trustwave, RSA, and Wipro were named in the Major Players category in this assessment.

"Tech buyers should select providers that have the best characteristics to augment and optimise their security operations, and more importantly, transform their security programmes to be more aligned with their business strategies. Breaches have become a daily occurrence and it is critical for security service providers to offer a lifecycle approach that include services to help organisations prepare, respond, remediate, and recover to a healthy state, and to minimise the negative impact of breach," says Cathy Huang, Senior Research Manager, IDC Asia/Pacific Security Services.