MANILA – An official of a global cybersecurity firm is positive on its business in the Philippines given the strong rise of the country’s business process outsourcing (BPO) sector and the government’s bid to secure its computer-related systems.
In an interview by PNA Friday, Symantec Senior Director for Cyber Security Services for Asia Pacific and Japan, said the rise of the country’s BPO sector in recent years had also resulted in higher demand for security-related services.
He said the rise of several industries such as the BPO sector had been “very significant” and their cybersecurity demand also rose given the surge of malware and computer viruses.
He said Symantec was normally in contact with these organizations “particularly because they’ve tied-up a lot of times with service level agreements with their outside organizations. And a lot of times they have been audited on their security measures as well.”
He said these entities have allocated higher funding for cybersecurity measures.
“So we see, for the Philippines in general, quite an increase in security span, driven a lot by the BPO space and the government as well,” he said but declined to give figures.
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