Information Technology

The Asia-Pacific network security market maintained steady growth momentum with a YoY growth of 15.1% in 2018. Firewall segment remained the largest revenue contributor with a double-digit YoY strong growth.IDS/IPS segment experienced a slower growth due to the decrease demand of siloed security products in the region. In terms of market share, Gre...

Enterprises are looking to enhance their security posture through MSS solutions because of the expanding threat landscape, growing incidents of ransomware, increased adoption of IoT devices, and migration to the cloud. The increasing adoption of IoT devices has made the security landscape even more complex, and organizations need to deal with secur...

The South Korean MSS market witnessed a growth of 7.8% in 2017. Though cloud MSS has been available since 2016, large enterprises adopted it at a higher rate in 2017. End-user verticals, such as manufacturing, government, service providers and others, such as retail, gaming, and broadcasting led the adoption of MSS in 2017. The South Korean MSS m...

In 2017, the Japanese MSS market witnessed a healthy growth of 7.6% on a YoY basis. The Japanese market continued to be the largest contributor in APAC, accounting for 32.3% of the market share in the APAC region. CPE-based management/monitoring service (MMS) segment contributed to a majority of the share in 2017, with a YoY growth of 6.6%. While ...

The Greater China MSS market maintained its double-digit growth of 18.3% on a YoY basis in 2017. The market was strongly driven by the introduction of new cybersecurity laws and guidelines from local authorities. Stricter compliance has put enterprises under greater pressure to meet specific requirements. More enterprises were looking for third-par...

Demand for MSS continued to quickly increase among ASEAN countries as the market grew significantly by 18.6%, on a YoY basis. Though investment in security measures for better security protection and risk management continued to increase, organizations in ASEAN faced growing challenges in security operations due to shortage of professionals and dom...

In 2017, the MSS market in the ANZ region recorded a growth of 13.5%. Australian companies are increasingly witnessing cybercrimes, making the region one of the most targeted the Asia-Pacific region. Ransomware and phishing attacks are the most frequent, and governments are now looking at the growing number of cyber incidents as a major area of con...

Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer considered a hype-based concept. Instead, IoT deployment is finally making headway with both private and public sectors in various industries in the world, and in Asia-Pacific, in particular. The high level of interest in IoT is matched by the increasing readiness of companies and organisations in the region to...

While most Asia-Pacific businesses are likely to explore contact center as a service (CCaaS) model, many of them with existing infrastructure would like to explore means to get better returns on their investment. In such cases, businesses are likely to adopt hybrid solutions as established systems vendors have already begun to offer more deployment...