ABSTRACT
Thus, after INPUT released InfoSec vendor rankings, one strategic question arose: How are NGIT’s competitors in the IA space leveraging their capabilities for InfoSec market gain?
INPUT, a leading government market research firm, is one of the few organizations that publish vendor rankings based largely on governmentissued procurement data. And they were the only market research firm that published federal government InfoSec vendor rankings. This was of concern to the Business Intelligence Unit (BIU), because one of the BIU’s operating policies is to always have at least two sources of information per topic. Without other published rankings, the BIU began to design its operating plan around four factors:
1. The InfoSec domain is an extremely diverse market with influential small, niche vendors who are very difficult to track.
