CGI Named as a Leader in Global Managed Security Services by NelsonHall

Montréal (ots/PRNewswire) -

CGI has been named as a Global Leader in Managed Security
Services
[http://www.cgi.com/en/information-security/managed-security-services
] by NelsonHall, a globally recognized and independent Business
Process Services (BPS) and IT Services (ITS) analyst firm.

In its 2015 NEAT Vendor Evaluation & Assessment Tool for Managed
Security Services, NelsonHall notes that "With 550 million (cyber)
events managed each month, CGI has an extensive view on cybersecurity
intelligence as a whole."

"By leveraging its experience in the North American public sector
market CGI has developed the capability to support clients globally
across a wide range of industries, demonstrated by a number of new
contract wins in government, manufacturing and financial services for
end-to-end security services," says Mike Smart, Research Analyst at
NelsonHall. "CGI has ramped up its security research capabilities
across the security landscape, which it integrates into all of its
security products."

NelsonHall also recognizes CGI for its multi-national capabilities
saying that, "CGI's multilingual security portal provides clients
with a single interface to the managed security service" supported by
its global network of security operations centers (SOCs) and a strong
partner network. "Clients also receive a high level of contact with
the client service manager and security advisor, who tend to be
located onshore" in line with CGI's blended global delivery model.

"We are delighted to have been recognized as a leader in this
NelsonHall report," said John Proctor, Vice-President, Global
Cybersecurity at CGI. "While we've been providing managed security
services to our clients since 2001, the cyber threat landscape looks
very different today. Our clients tell us that while they perceive
their business to be under a high level of persistent threat, they
are also under significant budget pressure to run their businesses
more efficiently and focus on transforming to become customer-centric
organizations. Clients recognize that building security into
everything they do is now a competitive advantage--and having a
strong managed security services partner makes good business sense."

With over 1400 global security professionals, many with military
backgrounds, CGI continues to invest in people, partnerships and
technology to help our clients stay ahead of globalized cyber
threats.

About CGI

Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is the fifth largest independent
information technology and business process services firm in the
world. Approximately 68,000 professionals serve thousands of global
clients from offices and delivery centers across the Americas, Europe
and Asia Pacific, leveraging a comprehensive portfolio of services,
including high-end business and IT consulting, systems integration,
application development and maintenance, and infrastructure
management, as well as a wide range of proprietary solutions. With
annual revenue in excess of C$10 billion and an order backlog of
approximately C$20 billion, CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A)
and the NYSE (GIB). Website: http://www.cgi.com.

About NelsonHall

NelsonHall [http://research.nelson-hall.com ] is the leading BPS
and ITS research firm with analysts in the U.S., U.K., and
Continental Europe. The company takes a global approach to analysis
of vendors and outsourcing markets and is widely respected for the
quality and depth of its research. The NEAT tool for Managed Security
Services is part of NelsonHall's "Speed-to-Source" initiative. The
tool sits at the front-end of the vendor screening process and
consists of a two-axis model: assessing vendors against their
"ability to deliver immediate benefit" to buy-side organizations and
their "ability to meet future client requirements". The NEAT
evaluations are based on a combination of interviews with the vendors
and their clients. The vendors are scored against a wide range of
criteria, establishing a number of scenarios, each representing a
different business situation or client business need.

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