Security



Growth Analytics & Advisory

Building Resilient Security Strategies. Creating Long-term Business Value.

From cybersecurity and digital identity to public safety and critical infrastructure, we help organizations anticipate disruption, accelerate innovation, and create long-term business value.

Industry Landscape & Leadership Priorities

Security leaders are transforming AI-driven threats, digital complexity, and evolving regulations into opportunities for resilience, innovation, and sustainable growth.

What leaders prioritize today.


Business Resilience

Strengthening organizational resilience by proactively managing cyber and physical risks while ensuring business continuity across increasingly connected environments.

 


AI-powered Security

Leveraging AI and automation to improve threat detection, accelerate response, and reduce the operational burden on security teams.


Security Platform Consolidation

Simplifying fragmented technology environments through integrated, platform-based security architectures that improve visibility and operational efficiency.

 


Regulatory & Compliance Readiness

Meeting evolving global regulations while protecting sensitive data, maintaining customer trust, and reducing compliance risks.


Growth Through Trusted Security

Aligning security investments with business strategy to accelerate digital transformation, improve customer confidence, and enable sustainable growth.

 


Identity-centric Security

Prioritizing identity governance, privileged access, and continuous authentication to reduce attack surfaces and secure modern digital ecosystems.

Core Program Areas

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Cybersecurity

Delivering market intelligence across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, application, and Zero Trust to accelerate innovation, differentiation, resilience, and sustainable growth strategies.

Cybersecurity growth analytics and advisory services
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Commercial & Public Security

Supporting organizations across physical security, public safety, critical infrastructure, enabling integrated cyber-physical strategies that strengthen resilience, operational readiness, and trusted growth.

Commercial and public security growth analytics and advisory services

Strategic Imperatives

Disruptive Technologies

Organizations are strengthening predictive security by adopting AI-powered detection, automated response, and advanced threat intelligence to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.

Internal Challenges

Growing talent shortages are driving investment in automation, managed security services, and workforce development strategies that improve operational effectiveness and reduce security team workloads.

Industry Convergence

Businesses are consolidating fragmented security solutions into unified platforms that integrate identity, cloud, endpoint, network, and physical security to improve visibility, simplify operations, and strengthen resilience.

Growth Opportunities

AI-augmented Security Operations

Organizations are investing in AI-powered security operations centers (SOCs), automated threat hunting, and intelligent incident response to improve detection speed and operational efficiency.

Managed Security Services

Demand for Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Managed Security Services (MSS), and co-managed security continues to grow as organizations seek scalable expertise amid persistent cybersecurity talent shortages.

Security Platform Consolidation

Enterprises are replacing fragmented point solutions with integrated security platforms that reduce operational complexity, improve visibility, and strengthen protection across hybrid environments.

OT & Critical Infrastructure Security

The convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) is creating significant opportunities to secure manufacturing, utilities, transportation, and other critical infrastructure environments.

Digital Identity, Privacy, & Zero Trust

Growing digital ecosystems, identity-first security strategies, and stricter privacy regulations are accelerating investments in identity governance, Zero Trust architectures, decentralized identity, and privacy-enhancing technologies.
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How We Support Growth

Our security growth advisory helps technology providers and enterprises identify opportunities, strengthen competitive positioning, and accelerate sustainable growth.

Market Opportunity Assessment

Identifying high-growth security segments, emerging technologies, and evolving customer demands across global markets.

Competitive Benchmarking

Evaluating competitive positioning, vendor capabilities, and market differentiation to strengthen growth strategies.

Technology & Ecosystem Analysis

Assessing emerging cybersecurity technologies, partner ecosystems, and innovation trends shaping the future security landscape.

Growth Strategy & Market Expansion

Helping organizations prioritize investments, enter new markets, and build scalable growth strategies aligned with evolving customer requirements.

Product & Portfolio Strategy

Supporting security vendors in aligning product roadmaps with market demand, customer priorities, and competitive differentiation.

Commercialization Strategy

Strengthening go-to-market execution, messaging, and market positioning to accelerate adoption and long-term revenue growth.

What Our Clients Gain


Stronger Security Resilience

Integrated strategies that reduce organizational risk while improving cyber and physical security readiness.


Smarter Investment Decisions

Actionable intelligence that helps prioritize technology investments with measurable business impact.


Simplified Security Operations

Reduced tool sprawl through platform consolidation and integrated security architectures.


Faster Threat Response

Improved visibility, automation, and intelligence that enable quicker detection and response to evolving threats.

A Proven Growth Solutions Portfolio

Global organizations choose Frost & Sullivan’s growth advisory and industry intelligence solutions to identify emerging opportunities, navigate disruption, and accelerate sustainable growth.

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Transformation Engine

A strategic growth execution framework that converts long-term business strategies into actionable initiatives, measurable milestones, and operational results.
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Growth Generator

A continuous intelligence platform that helps leaders track emerging technologies, monitor disruptive market shifts, and identify new growth opportunities ahead of competitors.
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Growth Opportunity Analytics

Advanced analytics that uncover high-impact growth opportunities across evolving customer demands, emerging technologies, and changing industry ecosystems.
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Frost Radar™

A proprietary innovation benchmarking framework that evaluates companies based on their ability to convert innovation investments into long-term market growth.
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Best Practices Recognition

A global recognition program that identifies organizations demonstrating breakthrough innovation, market leadership, and growth excellence across industries.
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Brand & Demand Solutions

Strategic thought leadership and growth marketing solutions designed to strengthen brand authority, increase market visibility, and drive engagement with key decision-makers.

Security Growth Experts

Our global security experts provide strategic intelligence and advisory across cybersecurity, commercial security, public safety, digital identity, and critical infrastructure.

Adrian Drozd

Adrian Drozd

Associate Partner & Practice Area Leader

A senior Security research leader with 20+ years of experience, helping CISOs and security providers navigate investment priorities, market dynamics, business planning, and growth opportunities.

Kenny Yeo

Kenny Yeo

Vice President, Growth Advisory

Kenny leads ICT and cybersecurity practices across Asia Pacific, bringing 20+ years of experience in enterprise IT, cloud, data centers, IoT, cybersecurity, and consulting.

Jarad Carleton

Jarad Carleton

Global VP of Research, Cybersecurity

A global cybersecurity research leader with 26+ years of experience, helping organizations navigate security markets, digital trust, customer priorities, and strategic growth decisions.

Danielle VanZandt

Danielle VanZandt

Associate Research Director, Commercial & Public Security

A Security research leader with 11+ years of experience, helping organizations navigate threat intelligence, OT security, digital identity, biometrics, public safety, and privacy regulations.

Tetsuya Niihara

Tetsuya Niihara

Director, Growth Advisory

Tetsuya brings 18 years of market research and consulting experience across Asia Pacific and Japan, specializing in IT security, networking, enterprise communications, cloud, and data centers.

Georgia Edell

Senior Consultant

Georgia supports technology and strategy engagements across security, defence, aviation, and unmanned systems, specializing in market assessment, competitive intelligence, and go-to-market strategy.

Seonji Lee

Seonji Lee

Associate Consultant

Seonji supports ICT and security advisory engagements across Asia Pacific, with expertise in go-to-market strategy, market entry, competitive benchmarking, and market assessment.

Mehek Mehta

Associate Consultant

Mehek supports research and consulting engagements through stakeholder coordination, data analysis, and project delivery, with experience spanning technology workflows, partnerships, people operations, and sustainability.

Long Quan Chiew

Long Quan Chiew

Consultant

Long Quan brings 9+ years of engineering and business advisory experience, specializing in digital transformation, industrial software, supply chain systems, IoT, cybersecurity, and go-to-market strategy.

Swetha Krishnamoorthi

Swetha Krishnamoorthi, CISM

Principal Industry Analyst

A cybersecurity research leader with 12+ years of experience, specializing in vulnerability management, automated security validation, zero trust browsers, and cybersecurity growth analysis.

Deepali Sathe

Deepali Sathe

Principal Industry Analyst

A cybersecurity research leader with 20+ years of experience, bringing cross-industry expertise in identity security, fraud prevention, security awareness, and digital trust.

Vu Anh Tien

Anh Tien Vu

Industry Principal

A cybersecurity strategy leader with 14+ years of experience, driving growth strategy across cloud-native security, DevSecOps, network security, data security, and channel ecosystems.

Vivien Pua

Vivien Pua

Senior Industry Analyst

A cybersecurity research leader with 9+ years of experience, specializing in application security, SASE, managed services, privileged access management, and emerging technology trends.

Lucas Ferreyra

Lucas Ferreyra

Principal Industry Analyst

A cybersecurity research leader with over 10 years of experience, translating behavioral, market, and technology trends across XDR, MDR, security operations, and AI.

Ying Ting Neoh

Ying Ting Neoh

Senior Industry Analyst, Cybersecurity

An industry analyst with 8+ years of experience, specializing in competitive benchmarking, product strategy, software supply chain security, DevOps security, and SaaS security.

Need some deeper insight? Reach out to our team to discuss your needs

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Key Questions Leaders Ask

Security leaders are redefining growth amid digital disruption, regulatory complexity, and rising expectations.

What does your security coverage include, and how comprehensive is it across cyber and physical domains?

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We provide a broad and integrated security coverage portfolio, spanning Cybersecurity (endpoint, identity, cloud, Secure Access Service Edge [SASE]/Security Service Edge [SSE], Extended Detection and Response [XDR], Cloud-native Application Protection Platform [CNAPP], Threat Intelligence [TI], External Attack Surface Management [EASM], SecDevOps, Zero Trust, Managed Detection & Response [MDR]/Managed Security Service Provider [MSSP], email security, Transport Layer Security [TLS], fraud prevention) and Commercial & Public Security (public safety, Container Network Interface [CNI], border security, surveillance, access control, detection/screening, smart/safe cities, mass transit), enabling a holistic view of converged attack surfaces and risk environments.

How is Frost & Sullivan’s research differentiated from other security research firms?

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Our security research is differentiated by its converged cyber + physical lens, global analyst footprint, and vendor benchmarking methodologies like the Frost Radar™. We also leverage cross‑industry insights—from manufacturing to healthcare to energy—giving clients context that most cybersecurity‑only firms cannot match.

Is your research only useful for security vendors?

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Our security coverage delivers value to both sides of the market by giving vendors the competitive intelligence, category visibility, and Frost Radar™ benchmarking they need to differentiate and accelerate growth, while providing enterprise decision‑makers with a comprehensive, unbiased view of the full cyber and physical security landscape to support confident vendor selection and strategy development.

Can your team support our specific use case, region, or technology area?

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Absolutely—our security practice is globally distributed across every major region, and our analysts specialize across verticals and. We also use structured vertical-specific frameworks to ensure highly contextualized insights tailored to your use case.

How do you support CISOs and enterprise security leaders?

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We help security leaders evaluate emerging technologies, benchmark vendors, prioritize investments, improve resilience, and align security initiatives with broader business objectives.

What strategic value do clients gain by working with Frost & Sullivan?

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Clients gain actionable market intelligence, growth opportunity identification, competitive benchmarking, strategic advisory, and industry expertise that enable faster, more confident business decisions.

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