Singtel’s Trustwave named Managed Security Service Provider of the Year

Trustwave, a Singtel company, has received Frost & Sullivan's 2018 Singapore and Southeast Asia Managed Security Service (MSS) Provider of the Year awards at the annual Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific Best Practices Awards held in Singapore. The achievement recognises companies that have pushed the boundaries of excellence to rise above the competition by demonstrating superior performance and innovation in their respective markets.

Arthur Wong, CEO, Trustwave said, “These accolades reflect significant advancements we continue to make in the Asia Pacific region and globally to help organisations address an increase in sophisticated cyberthreats while contending with shortages of adept security practitioners. Our near real-time threat intelligence derived from our global network of Advanced Security Operation Centres powers our threat detection and response, remote forensic investigations and other managed security services and is a key differentiator we deliver to the marketplace. We look forward to continuously helping organisations refine how they protect data assets and strengthen overall security postures.”

The recipients of the annual Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific Best Practice Awards were identified based on in-depth research conducted by Frost & Sullivan's analysts. The award categories offered each year are carefully reviewed and evaluated to reflect the current market landscape and include new emerging trends. The short-listed companies were evaluated on a variety of actual market performance indicators which include revenue growth; market share and growth in market share; leadership in product innovation; marketing strategy and business development strategy.

Divya Prasad, Senior Industry Analyst, Cyber Security, ICT Practice of Frost & Sullivan noted that Singtel has developed a strong domain expertise and R&D capabilities over the years, enabling it to offer various innovative managed security service offerings. This has generated high trust among customers in the Asia Pacific region and across the globe.

“In 2017, Singtel’s Trustwave continued to demonstrate leadership position during the year despite stiff competition in the market. Trustwave continued to hold a strong position in the market through its vast and comprehensive MSS portfolio with offerings ranging from perimeter, endpoint to cloud security. The company also offers advanced services such as DDoS protection, advanced threat prevention, threat hunting, deception and threat intelligence. Through these services, customers have been able to benefit from a strong security architecture and can focus on their main business operations,” she stated.

DDoS stands for distributed denial of service, a type of attack that overwhelms a network, causing business operations to halt.

Trustwave Managed Security Services help organisations proactively address advanced information security threats while reducing the pressures created by resource constraints, skills shortages, data regulations and the rapid adoption and optimisation of new technologies. Backed by Trustwave SpiderLabs, a team of elite ethical hackers, incident responders, and threat hunters, the services deliver the security organisations need without requiring them to install and manage technologies themselves, to retain and train staff to configure and run those systems, or to worry about security programmes becoming antiquated.

Trustwave Managed Security Services differentiators include:

Actionable threat intelligence, digital forensics and incident response, and a proprietary point of delivery system.