Information Security Consulting Market Size

Information Security Consultant Market Analysis

The Information Security Consulting Market size is estimated at USD 26.72 billion in 2024, and is expected to reach USD 44.14 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 10.56% during the forecast period (2024-2029).

Rising network complexities due to mergers and acquisitions and third-party application deployment, increasing threats to the security of IoT devices, and the growing trend of BYOD are some of the major factors driving the growth of the market.

• The significant push toward a digital environment with the adoption of new technologies, such as IoT, is developing a need for third-party service providers to protect valuable assets from cyber-attacks. According to CISCO, connected devices are expected to reach 29.3 billion by 2023. The company also anticipates that IoT is expected to spread across 50% of all machine-to-machine technology that will reach about 5.3 billion people by 2023.
• Organizations across different end-user industries are making IoT devices a priority of their digital transformation strategy. According to Microsoft's IoT signal edition 2 survey, 90% of the 3,000 business and technical decision-makers and developers suggested IoT is critical to their company's success.
• In addition, about 64% of the decision-makers across a range of industries in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Japan are planning to implement more IoT projects in the future. IT consulting companies, such as Accenture PLC and others, offer security services to mitigate attacks on IoT hardware.
• Compared to the previous year, there has been a growth in breaches across most end-user verticals, according to Verizon's 2022 Data Breach Report globally, based on data from more than 80 organizations. Verizon analyzed 23,896 real-world security incidents, of which 5,212 were confirmed breaches. Out of 4,250 data breaches Verizon analyzed, approximately 50% were enabled through credentials, 15+% were enabled through phishing, 15+% were enabled through phishing, and the remaining were enabled through botnets.
• There have been several cases where organizations across different end-user verticals have been affected by sophisticated cyber attacks. In April 2022, the finance ministry of the Costa Rican government was overtaken by hackers. These hackers took control of the ministry's computer systems and demanded USD 10 million to return access back to the government. When the government refused, the hackers carried out cyber attacks against around 30 government agencies.