Vendor Analysis
published on Apr 13, 2015
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes Cognizant's offerings and capabilities in managed security services.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall's Managed Security Services profile on Cognizant is a comprehensive assessment of Cognizant's offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of managed security services and identifying vendor suitability for security services RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the IT services sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of Cognizant's managed security services offerings and capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company's strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company's strengths, weaknesses, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company's customer base including the company's targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company's offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company's delivery organization including the location of delivery locations.
Key Findings & Highlights:
Headquartered in Teaneck, NJ, Cognizant generated revenues of $10.26bn in CY 2014, a growth of 16.1%, nearly 15% of which was organic growth.
Cognizant introduced its managed security service/SMaaS model for security at the beginning of 2014. It was already offering a number of managed security services including:
- Application security services such as application security assessment
- Security information and event management bundled in infrastructure services.