Deloitte ranked #1 by Gartner in Security Consulting Services for the 4th consecutive year

New York, NY, 7^th  July 2016– Deloitte is pleased to announce that Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, ranked Deloitte #1 globally, based on revenue, in Security Consulting Services for the fourth consecutive year, in their April 2016 report entitled, Market Share: Security Consulting Services, Worldwide, 2015.

“We feel being ranked #1 in Gartner’s security consulting report for the fourth consecutive year is a testament to our capabilities,” said Ted DeZabala, Global Cyber Risk Services leader at Deloitte. “The strategies that our clients employ to innovate and grow are the very things that exacerbate cyber risk across multiple business and technology dimensions. Deloitte is ideally positioned to help them address these challenges. We believe clients and analysts alike recognize and value our strengths and capabilities in this field.”

Discussing the broader risk landscape, the Gartner report notes, “The security consulting service market has grown from an estimated $15.3 billion in 2014 to $16.5 billion in 2015 with a growth rate of 7.6 percent, with a constant currency growth of 16.6 percent.”

Gartner defines Security Consulting services as “security-specific advisory services designed to help companies assess, analyze and improve the efficiency of their business operations, IT operations and technology strategies for security and risk management activities. Security consulting services include security-related business and IT consulting, as well as security assurance, but they exclude security audit work that results in attestation of security controls used for audit purposes.”^*

^*Source: Gartner Market Insight: Security Consulting Services, Taxonomy Update 2.0, Jacqueline Heng, 04, March 2016

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