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IDC MARKETSCAPE: WORLDWIDE INCIDENT RESPONSE 202 VENDOR ASSESSMENT
There has been a dramatic sea change by organizations worldwide recognizing the need for incident response( IR) services. Fortunately for CISOs, this bodes well for giving them a chance to establish some tenure rather than the sad prior reality of seeing them being key pieces of helping their firms recover from cyberattacks only to see them forcibly removed at the end of the recovery period.
Simply stated, the threat environment has never been more elevated. The variety of attacks that nation-state actors and other cybercriminal groups can deploy against their targets is increasingly difficult to completely anticipate and stop. The need for incident response services is a matter of when, rather than“ if.”
IDC sees the following changes as key market movers and new realities in the incident response market:
Incident readiness: As organizations increase the maturity of their cybersecurity capabilities, a strategic part of their defense has been the proactive incident readiness measures that they are utilizing. This IDC MarketScape is largely focused on the reactive pieces of incident response, but a key part of building up the muscle memory of incident response is dependent on what happens before a major attack actually lands.
Readiness activities such as tabletop exercises help drop departmental barriers as traditional tech bastions like cyber and information technology
( IT) work with operations, finance, HR, and communications up and down the chain of command from analysts up to the board to measure and test their capabilities of responding to a variety of potential scenarios. �
IDC MarketScape Source: IDC, 2025
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Response 2025 Vendor Assessment
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FIGURE 1 IDC MarketScape Worldwide Incident Response Vendor Assessment
August 2025, IDC # US52036825e
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