Techvia Alliance - Information security Enterprise spend over $2 billion by 2020


Information security Enterprise in India has been grown more than 12% to $1.86 billion in 2019, report forecasted by technology research firm Gartner. The firm Gartner reported that security services will encourage maximum spending from chief information security officers (CISOs), and security leaders in 2019 as local organizations will emphasize on the need for threat detection, compliance and security hygiene. Security services in 2019, will represent 51.5% of the total enterprise information security spending in the country. On increasing the awareness on benefits of risk assessment and the acknowledgement that security is one of the enablers of digital transformation India is boosting enterprise security spending. The rise in the advancement of cyberattacks, ransomware and malware attacks has put cybersecurity as a top investment priority for Indian CISOs, resulting the increase in spending on security locally. The growth of enterprise spending on information security in India will continue to grow nonstop, to reach over $2 billion in 2020. The cloud security and integrated risk management are the fastest growing segments this year, said research firm. Cloud security is expected to enterprise spending of total $4 million in 2019, a growth of 300% over 2018, while integrated risk management solutions saw a 23.1% increase year over year. Online payments after demonetization in 2016 led to an increase in investments toward IT infrastructure security. The change towards digital business is also forcing CISOs to increase their spending on managing risks arising from cyberattacks and non-compliance.

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