India End-User Spending on Security and Risk Management to Grow 9.4% in 2022

Work-From-Anywhere Culture, Hybrid and Virtual-First Workplaces is going to Drive Spending on Cloud Security and Integrated Risk Management, with this the End-user spending on security and risk management in India is forecast to total $2.6 billion in 2022, an increase of 9.4% from 2021, as per Gartner. Hybrid or remote working is the new normal in 2022.

Some organizations have even shifted to a virtual-first approach following the learnings from 2020. This model of working puts the spotlight on cloud, endpoint and identity security as employees become the ‘branch of one’ for an organization. Gartner research shows that there is a significant shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals.

Therefore, end-user organizations in India often engage with security service providers to meet their cybersecurity objectives. As a result, spending on security services is forecast to total $1 billion in 2022, the highest among all segments. This will be followed by spending on network security equipment and infrastructure protection.

COVID-19 was a pivotal moment in the way organizations approached risk or prepared for disruptions. Now, security leaders are putting risk management at the center of their security and business strategies. Cybersecurity will continue to be top priority for Indian CIOs in 2022 and out of the total CIOs in India surveyed, 64% said they will increase their spending on technologies related to cyber and information security in 2022, higher than the global average of 57%.

Indian leaders responsible for security and risk management need to adopt an assumed breach mindset because security incidents are inevitable in the current era,” said Gartner. They should prioritize spending on building detection and response capabilities, and not just technologies. This will help them reduce time to detect and time to recover from incidents.

In 2022, Indian security and risk management leaders will need to revisit their approach to network security with a focus on technologies such as zero trust network access (ZTNA) for context-based security. They need to envision the future of network security in the cloud.” 

S Mohini Ratna, Editor, VARINDIA