Security Services will transform global service delivery models and professional security services, driven by enterprise board-level oversight, data and intellectual property protection, and compliance. IDC expects major market shifts as customers across all size segments increasingly rely on managed (CPE) and cloud security services to meet their security requirements, and as cloud services adoption moves from private to hybrid to public cloud. As firms merge, acquire, and partner, professional consulting and integration services will grow as customers seek to improve security depth and operational efficiencies. IDC's Security Services research examines these areas and enterprise behavior causing these shifts as well as evaluations of security service vendors' competitive landscape, portfolio gaps, and vendor share.

• Professional security services
• Worldwide managed security services
• Threat intelligence/cybersecurity services
• Identity and access management services
• Security services trends in the datacenter
• Security services market forecast by segment
• Security services competitive analysis
• Security compliance and governance services
• Worldwide managed security services forecast and analysis
• Analysis of cloud-based and CPE-based delivery models for managed security services
• Virtualization security services

• Security Consulting and Integration Services: Worldwide and U.S. Market Forecasts and Analysis
• Security Services Vendor Profiles
• Telecom Provider Strategies in the Security Services Market
• Security Services Market Share Analysis
• Managed Security Services: Worldwide and U.S. Market Forecasts and Analysis
• End-User Case Studies

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1. What are the key trends emerging within the security services market and how will the market grow in the near future?
2. What are the current and forecast sizes of the overall security services market and where are the changes occurring?
3. What are the managed services growth areas and where are the greatest operations attach rates?
4. What are the opportunities for identity services and products?
5. What are the requirements to gain share in these markets?
6. Which vendors are providing services as it relates to enterprise demand?

IDC's Security Services research analyzes the strategies, market positions, and future directions of major vendors in the security products market. A representative list of these vendors may include:

Accenture, Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, BearingPoint, British Telecom (Counterpane), CA Technologies, Capgemini, CenturyLink, Cisco, Covisint, CSC, Dell/SecureWorks, Deloitte & Touche, EMC (RSA), Entrust, Fujitsu, General Dynamics, HP/EDS, IBM ISS, Infosys, Lockheed Martin, McAfee, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Novell, Oracle, Orange Business Services, Perimeter E-Security, PricewaterhoueCoopers, Qualys, SafeNet, SAIC, SonicWALL, Sprint, Symantec, Tata Communications, Trend Micro, Trustwave, Unisys, VeriSign, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, and Wipro.

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