PwC named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Cloud Security Services 2021 Vendor Assessment Study

PwC has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Cloud Security Services 2021 Vendor Assessment Study (June 2021, IDC #AP47097721).  The IDC MarketScape found that ‘the cloud-first approach took the Asia/Pacific market by storm in 2020. Fast-growing organizations in Asia/Pacific tend to adopt a cloud-first or cloud-only approach when digitizing their business to take advantage of the agility, efficiency, and resilience that cloud technology promises.’

The IDC MarketScape states that: ‘PwC has a unified global strategy when it comes to portfolio development, which is shared by its territory practice around the world. The firm also has a products organization that owns, manages, and continues to develop the products and proprietary solutions related to cloud security and has built a series of enablers to support its execution strategy at scale.’

Siva Krishnan, Partner, PwC Cybersecurity Consulting Leader, Asia Pacific said: ‘Our early and continuing security investments with the major hyper scalers, our focus on PwC intellectual property and talent for securely building, operating and migrating workloads to the cloud continue to be recognized as industry leading by clients, market participants, and now highly respected industry analysts.   We are honoured to receive this recognition from IDC.’

Commenting on PwC’s strengths, the report states: ‘Innovation is another area that is quickly emerging as a strength of PwC, as many of its solutions and platforms are integrated with next-gen technologies, such as analytics and AI, which results in enhanced levels of automation.’

It goes on to say: ‘Apart from technology, PwC has invested significantly in building competencies, and the skills of its security professionals are a clear strength. Clients spoke highly of the firm's experts and practitioners' capabilities, and how the personnel and senior staff members have been a factor for their organizations' continuous engagements with PwC in Asia/Pacific. In addition, clients found PwC's pricing model more favourable compared with that of its competitors in the market. Being able to take on highly customized and at time small one-off engagements on short notice is another quality that resonated with the clients.’

Sangram Gayal, Partner, PwC, Cloud Security Leader comments: ‘Too often, cloud security gets addressed in the middle or even on the right side of the cloud adoption timeline — during or after migration and modernization, not before.  Our goal is help clients with the technologies, practices, and expertise to design security and controls into their cloud strategy from the start, further positioning CISOs and cloud services providers as business value creators.’

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