{"id":522,"date":"2019-09-20T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostnamaste.com\/blog\/?post_type=news&#038;p=522"},"modified":"2019-10-23T18:21:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T12:51:26","slug":"demonetization-is-the-key-factor-in-indias-increased-investments-in-it-security-gartner","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.hostnamaste.com\/blog\/news\/demonetization-is-the-key-factor-in-indias-increased-investments-in-it-security-gartner\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonetization is the key factor in India\u2019s Increased Investments in IT Security: Gartner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-523\" style=\"width: 832px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-523\" title=\"Demonetization is the key factor in India\u2019s increased investments in IT security - Gartner - HostNamaste\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostnamaste.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Demonetization-is-key-factor-in-India\u2019s-increased-investments-in-IT-security-Gartner-HostNamaste.jpg\" alt=\"Demonetization is the key factor in India\u2019s increased investments in IT security - Gartner - HostNamaste\" width=\"832\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostnamaste.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Demonetization-is-key-factor-in-India\u2019s-increased-investments-in-IT-security-Gartner-HostNamaste.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hostnamaste.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Demonetization-is-key-factor-in-India\u2019s-increased-investments-in-IT-security-Gartner-HostNamaste-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva; color: #99cc00;\">Demonetization is the key factor in India\u2019s increased investments in IT security &#8211; Gartner &#8211; HostNamaste<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\">Data security of an organization is one of the biggest concerns for the CIOs. They are investing more now to secure the data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostnamaste.com\/blog\/news\/vodafone-idea-extends-its-network-as-a-platform-capabilities-with-mavenir\/\">network<\/a> and infrastructure. Gartner recently revealed that enterprise information security spending in India is expected to grow to $1.86 billion in 2019, which is 12.4% higher from the year 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\"><em>\u201cThe growth of enterprise spending on information security in India will continue to grow unabated to reach over US$2 billion in 2020,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said\u00a0<strong>Prateek Bhajanka<\/strong>, principal research analyst at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-cm\/enterprise-information-security-spending-in-india-to-grow-12-in-2019-gartner-119082600592_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gartner<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\">The increasing awareness about the risk assessment benefits and the right security implementation are the main enablers of digital transformation. These factors are boosting the enterprise spending on information security in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\">Apart from this, the high rise in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostnamaste.com\/blog\/how-to-stay-secure-from-cyber-attacks\/\">cyberattacks<\/a> has put cybersecurity as the top most priority for investment among CISOs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\">Gartner analysts describe that the security services in coming years will have the attention of the most of the CISOs and security executives. In 2019, the security services will have 51.5% of the total enterprise information security spending in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\">For cloud, the total enterprise spending is expected to reach $4 million in 2019, up 300% from 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\"><em>\u201cThe Personal Data Protection bill, which is likely to be accepted by the Indian parliament in 2019, and the government\u2019s initiatives like \u2018Digital India\u2019 and \u2018Smart City\u2019 are increasing net-new adopters of cloud,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said\u00a0<strong>Rustam Malik<\/strong>, principal research analyst at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2019-08-26-gartner-forecasts-enterprise-information-security-spe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gartner<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\"><em>\u201cIn addition, Indian organisations are increasingly using cloud-specific security tools such as Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solutions for threat prevention, data loss prevention and compliance requirements, which is fuelling the triple-digit growth of cloud security in India,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<strong>Malik<\/strong>\u00a0added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\">The integrated risk management solutions witnessed 23.1 percent rise year over year, making this the second fastest growing industry in this market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\">There has been rise in online payment since demonetization in 2016. With this, the investments in securing IT infrastructure has increased. This move is also increasing pressure among CISOs and security teams in India to secure their company data. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyhostnews.com\/demonetization-is-key-factor-in-indias-increased-investments-in-it-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE HERE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data security of an organization is one of the biggest concerns for the CIOs. 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