MONTRÉAL, November 4, 2015
/PRNewswire/ --
CGI (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB) has been
named as a Global Leader in Managed Security Services by
NelsonHall, a globally recognized and independent Business Process
Services (BPS) and IT Services (ITS) analyst firm.
In its 2015 NEAT Vendor Evaluation & Assessment Tool for
Managed Security Services, NelsonHall notes that "With 550 million
(cyber) events managed each month, CGI has an extensive view on
cybersecurity intelligence as a whole."
"By leveraging its experience in the North American public
sector market CGI has developed the capability to support clients
globally across a wide range of industries, demonstrated by a
number of new contract wins in government, manufacturing and
financial services for end-to-end security services," says
Mike Smart, Research Analyst at
NelsonHall. "CGI has ramped up its security research capabilities
across the security landscape, which it integrates into all of its
security products."
NelsonHall also recognizes CGI for its multi-national
capabilities saying that, "CGI's multilingual security portal
provides clients with a single interface to the managed security
service" supported by its global network of security operations
centers (SOCs) and a strong partner network. "Clients also receive
a high level of contact with the client service manager and
security advisor, who tend to be located onshore" in line with
CGI's blended global delivery model.
"We are delighted to have been recognized as a leader in this
NelsonHall report," said John
Proctor, Vice-President, Global Cybersecurity at CGI. "While
we've been providing managed security services to our clients since
2001, the cyber threat landscape looks very different today. Our
clients tell us that while they perceive their business to be under
a high level of persistent threat, they are also under significant
budget pressure to run their businesses more efficiently and focus
on transforming to become customer-centric organizations. Clients
recognize that building security into everything they do is now a
competitive advantage--and having a strong managed security
services partner makes good business sense."
With over 1400 global security professionals, many with military
backgrounds, CGI continues to invest in people, partnerships and
technology to help our clients stay ahead of globalized cyber
threats.
About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is the fifth largest independent
information technology and business process services firm in the
world. Approximately 68,000 professionals serve thousands of global
clients from offices and delivery centers across the Americas,
Europe and Asia Pacific, leveraging a comprehensive
portfolio of services, including high-end business and IT
consulting, systems integration, application development and
maintenance, and infrastructure management, as well as a wide range
of proprietary solutions. With annual revenue in excess of
C$10 billion and an order backlog of
approximately C$20 billion, CGI
shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB).
Website: http://www.cgi.com.
About NelsonHall
NelsonHall is the leading BPS and ITS research firm with
analysts in the U.S., U.K., and Continental Europe. The company
takes a global approach to analysis of vendors and outsourcing
markets and is widely respected for the quality and depth of its
research. The NEAT tool for Managed Security Services is part of
NelsonHall's "Speed-to-Source" initiative. The tool sits at the
front-end of the vendor screening process and consists of a
two-axis model: assessing vendors against their "ability to deliver
immediate benefit" to buy-side organizations and their "ability to
meet future client requirements". The NEAT evaluations are based on
a combination of interviews with the vendors and their clients. The
vendors are scored against a wide range of criteria, establishing a
number of scenarios, each representing a different business
situation or client business need.
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