Market Trends of Security Operation Center as a Service Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Security Operation Center as a Service Market according to our research experts:
BFSI is Expected to have Significant Growth
- BFSI is one of the favourite targets for cybercriminals for cyber threats and data breaches. The most prevalent challenges faced by this sector are a threat, due to deployment and operational challenges, frauds due to third party transactions, targets by advanced persistent threat groups, and state-sponsored attacks. With constant monitoring by SOC tools and quickly delivering SOC intelligence, these threats can be minimized or eliminated.
- The number of cyberattacks targeted toward the BFSI sector has been increasing in the last few years. For instance, in 2019, Capital One Bank has faced a data breach where 140,000 social security numbers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers were exposed in the US. Besides, approximately 1 million Canadian social insurance numbers were leaked. Various governments are taking significant measures to curtail the cyberthreat in the BFSI sector. Many vendors, such as Cyligant Inc., are offering specific SOC solutions to the BFSI sector.
- In August 2019, a data breach of 1.3 million debit and credit cardholders belonging to Indian Banks was detected by a Singapore based cyber-security company- Group-IB. The revelation has put to risk the sensitive details that have been leaked and put up for sale on the dark web, with each card accounted for USD 100, taking the total valuation of the data to USD 130 million. The 2019 Asia Pacific CISO Benchmark Study by Cisco found that one in three Indian companies is facing substantial financial losses due to security breaches.
- Thus, SOC, as a service solution in the BFSI sector, plays an essential role in preventing these data breaches. For instance, in January 2019, IBM collaborated with EY to launch SOC in India that is equipped with advanced threat detection capabilities and IBM QRadar platform specially designed for a financial services organization.
- Many vendors are also offering specific SOC solutions to the BFSI sector. For instance, an affordable suite of subscription-based services is offered by Cygilant's SOCVue services, in order to deliver increased security visibility and guidance, effectively reducing cyber risks, thereby, to meet compliance requirements placed on financial services institutions.
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North America is Expected to have Significant Market Share
- Hackers are continuing to innovate their cyberattacks to become increasingly more evasive and damaging. According to Identity Theft Resource Center, in 2020, the number of data breaches in the United States came in at a total of 1001 cases. Further, In 2020, a major cyberattack by a group backed by a foreign government penetrated thousands of organizations globally, including multiple parts of the United States federal government, leading to a series of data breaches.
- IoT has added a layer of complexity to the security operations center (SOC) team. Already challenged by the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape, SOC staff now has to understand the subtleties of cyberattacks that play on the hyperconnectivity afforded by the use of enterprise IoT. A recent study, which examined the modern SOC challenges, found that alert fatigue and false positives served as their largest sources of pain.
- According to Cisco, among the countries that will have the highest average of per capita devices and connections by 2023 is the United States with 13.6. Also, according to IPlytics, 37,595 IoT patent applications have been filed in the United States to date, making it the world's second-largest processor of IoT patent applications after China. Such trends are expected to act as major drivers for growth in the market.
- In March 2020, Optiv Security, a security solutions integrator delivering end-to-end cybersecurity solutions, emphasized its continued investment in securing Canadian enterprises and government entities with the opening of its Mississauga-based security operations center. The center combines a diverse team of cybersecurity experts, including SOC engineers, developers, and threat analysts, to provide local, real-time, 24/7 threat monitoring and remediation resources for Canadian clients.
- The North American region is expected to dominate the market, owing to many prominent SOCaaS vendors across the region, such as SecureWorks Inc., Atos SE, BAE Systems PLC, FireEye Inc., etc. Cybersecurity will remain the focus area for the SOCs.
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