SB Technology Achieves Number One Share in the SIEM Operations Services and Microsoft 365 Monitoring and Operations Services Markets in a Survey Report Issued by Deloitte Tohmatsu MIC

SB Technology Corp. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President ＆ CEO: Shinichi Ata; hereinafter referred to as SBT) has ranked first in sales revenue share in the SIEM operation services market and Microsoft 365 monitoring and operation services market for 2023 in the market research report "Current Status and Outlook of the Managed Security Services Market 2024 Edition" (hereinafter referred to as this Report) issued in December 2024 by Deloitte Tohmatsu MIC Research Institute Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as MIC).

SBT has ranked first in the SIEM operation service market in this report, with a 115.4% increase in sales amount in 2023 compared to the previous year and a domestic share of 16.1%. The report states that "managed services using SIEM and SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response), which aims to automate and streamline operational tasks, are expected to expand as a measure to address the security personnel shortage that will continue to become more serious in the supply chain," and the rapid growth of 128.6% in sales amount in 2024 compared to the previous year is expected to continue.

The Microsoft 365 monitoring and operation services market has been newly added to this report, and covers services that monitor alerts generated by Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra ID, etc., judge threats, and escalate to users. SBT 's sales revenue in this market in 2023 will grow 128.0% year-on-year, and its domestic share is 18.4%, ranking first. The report states that "The SOC will constantly monitor the Microsoft 365 E5 security functions in the user environment 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, resolving the shortage of personnel in security monitoring. In addition, there is an increasing demand for services that determine whether logs and detected security alerts are false positives and their impact, and notify users of the analysis results and countermeasures." Sales revenue in 2024 is expected to grow 133.3% year-on-year.

In addition, in the security monitoring and operation services market, SBT 's sales revenue in fiscal year 2023 is expected to increase 115.2% year-on-year, and its domestic share will be 4.8% (7th place), significantly exceeding the market average growth rate.

SBT will continue to meet customer needs and enhance its security monitoring and operation services, including SIEM operation services such as Microsoft Sentinel, as well as SASE and XDR products, in order to work toward solving the security challenges faced by customers.

■ SBT Security Services
SBT provides a wide range of one-stop services to support the protection of customers' important information assets and business continuity, from comprehensive security consulting, security product implementation and operation support, managed security services (MSS), and recovery support after incidents, as a service to support measures against increasingly sophisticated and diverse cyber attacks. At the Security Monitoring Center (SBT-SOC), security analysts protect customers' information assets 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Of these services provided by SBT, 14 security services have been designated as "NOZ SECURITY" and are being developed as such.

Currently, our security monitoring and operation services are used by more than hundreds of enterprise companies and local governments in 405 municipalities in 12 prefectures. In addition, by strengthening collaboration with sales partners nationwide, in addition to our mainstay MSS, we are providing security services that meet customer needs, such as providing low-priced cloud services that are easy to implement even for small and medium-sized companies. We are promoting the expansion of We will continue to work towards solving the security issues faced by our customers.

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About Deloitte Tohmatsu MIC Research Institute Co., Ltd.'s "Current Status and Outlook of the Managed Security Services Market 2024 Edition"

This report sheds light on the current state of the managed security services market for security specialist vendors, comprehensive IT vendors, and ISP/MSP operators that provide MSS to end users, and provides an outlook for the future.
Issue date: December 2024
Survey period: October 2024 to December 2024
Survey period: Security package vendors, comprehensive IT vendors, carrier/ISP operators, data center operators, a total of 30 companies

• *Company names, product names, and service names mentioned in this release are registered trademarks or trademarks of each company.
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