Capgemini named as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide MDR/MXDR for the Enterprise 2026 Vendor Assessment

Recognized for its strengths including engineering discipline behind AI automation, sovereignty and European delivery depth, resilience-oriented outcome-based operating model, and investment in talent and low senior attrition.

Capgemini has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide MDR/MXDR Services for the Enterprise 2026 Vendor Assessment.

We believe this recognition confirms Capgemini’s transformation-led approach to Managed Detection and Response (MDR). Through a combination of AI-powered security operations, cyber resilience expertise, and sovereign delivery capabilities, we help organizations reduce cyber risk, respond with confidence, recover faster from disruption, and strengthen resilience in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

The assessment evaluated 20 MDR/MXDR providers.

“Capgemini’s IDC MarketScape evaluation reflects a deliberate ‘AI-last’ engineering discipline, matching each SOC workflow to the automation, machine learning, or large language model best suited to it, rather than applying AI uniformly across the board. Combined with a global network of sovereign SOCs and an outcome-based, resilience-focused delivery model, Capgemini is well positioned to serve enterprises that view MDR as part of a broader cyber-resilience transformation rather than a transactional alert-monitoring service.”

Craig Robinson, Research Vice President, Security and Trust, IDC

“Cyber resilience has become the business outcome organizations are seeking from security operations. As threats evolve and AI reshapes the cybersecurity landscape, organizations need partners who can help them reduce risk, respond faster, recover stronger, and innovate with confidence. We believe speed is the new perimeter. In today’s interconnected world, an organization’s ability to detect, investigate, respond to, and remediate threats faster than adversaries can exploit them is becoming the defining measure of security success. We are proud to be recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape, and we believe this recognition validates our vision of combining AI-powered operations, engineering excellence, sovereign delivery, and human expertise to help clients build resilient organizations for the future.”

Marco Pereira, Global Head of Cybersecurity, Capgemini

Some of our strengths highlighted in the assessment

• Engineering discipline behind AI automation. Capgemini’s AI-last methodology stands out in the market, including its broad AI-first messaging. By decomposing the SOC workflow task-by-task and matching each to deterministic automation, ML, or LLMs based on cost, speed, and reliability, the firm avoids the expense and non-determinism of applying LLMs to inline detection at scale. This positions automation economics and zero-touch resolution rates favorably relative to peers that are still proving AI value.
• Sovereignty and European delivery depth. As a French-owned, European-based GSI, Capgemini brings a favorable sovereignty posture that is increasingly important, especially in the EU and other geographies where local capabilities are desired and at times mandated. It offers EU-, US-, UK-, France-only, and global delivery with flexible data residency (on-premises, hosted, or cloud/SaaS), and has aligned with major hyperscalers as a European sovereign partner. Its sovereign SOC model for defense and intelligence clients addresses geopolitical and deglobalization pressures reshaping enterprise buyer requirements.
• Resilience-oriented, outcome-based operating model. The integration of MDR with PRiSM (MDR Squared) to extend into response and recovery is a genuine differentiator for clients consuming both services, enabling auto-patching and self-healing. Coupled with an outcome-based commercial model with pricing, SLAs, and operational penalties tailored to client maturity and a defined transformation journey, Capgemini positions itself as a strategic transformation partner rather than a transactional alert-handling vendor.

With our global network of Cyber Defense Centers, deep cybersecurity expertise, and an outcome-focused operating model, Capgemini helps enterprises strengthen cyber resilience while navigating evolving threat, regulatory, and operational challenges.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is the business transformation partner for enterprises in the age of AI. We help organizations imagine and build an intelligent, sustainable future, combining AI, technology and human ingenuity to transform how they operate, innovate and grow. With unique end-to-end capabilities spanning strategy, technology, engineering and intelligent operations, we bring together deep industry expertise and market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data to turn ambition into measurable business outcomes at scale. Supported by a robust ecosystem of partners and nearly 60 years of expertise, Capgemini is a responsible and diverse global organization of over 410,000 team members in more than 50 countries. The Group reported 2025 revenues of €22.5 billion.

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About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.