*NEW RESEARCH* UK public sector SITS suppliers: cyber security offerings

Over the last 1-2 years, our conversations with the major SITS suppliers to the UK public sector have been dominated by how they will retain as much of their existing public sector business as possible, while trying to find new growth markets to pursue.

Across the majority of the Top 20 suppliers (see UK public sector SITS supplier landscape 2013-14), cyber security was consistently highlighted as a growth area. But what remained a mystery was what these suppliers meant when they said ‘cyber security’. And indeed, how they intended to differentiate from the other suppliers in an increasingly crowded landscape.

The term cyber security is becoming more heavily utilised. Some traditional IT security suppliers dislike the term, considering it over-used and hijacked for marketing purposes. Indeed, in the computing context, the term ‘security’ (on its own) implies cyber security.

This PublicSectorViews report seeks to determine how the major SITS suppliers are reacting to current buying trends around ‘cyber’ or ‘IT’ security across the UK public sector, how they are investing in their cyber security offerings to market, and how they intend to package and sell those offerings to UK public sector organisations.

The report also considers the growing band of SMEs with product and/or services in cyber security. Are they a threat to the larger players? Will they succeed because they are agile and fleet-of-foot? Or will they struggle to maintain the levels of investment required to tackle new and emerging cyber threats?

Subscribers to TechMarketViews’ PublicSectorViews research stream can download the report – UK Public Sector SITS suppliers: cyber security offerings – now. If you are not yet a subscriber and would like to gain access, please get in touch with Deb Seth, who would be delighted to help!

Posted by Georgina O'Toole at '21:02' - Tagged: publicsector   strategy   security   suppliers   cyber