For many years, EMA has observed signs that enterprises are trying to improve alignment between their network infrastructure and operations teams and their information security and cybersecurity teams. EMA market research has revealed increased collaboration between these groups. Also, vendors introduced solutions that facilitate this collaboration. For instance, network performance management vendors have started offering security solutions based on their existing intellectual property. In conversations with IT leaders, the importance of this collaboration comes up again and again. EMA refers to this expanding focus on network and security collaboration as NetSecOps.