PRESS RELEASE

MUMBAI, India, Oct 12, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced that it has been awarded the prestigious CIO100 Award and the Special Category Award for its information security architecture and monitoring practices by IDG India's CIO magazine. The annual award recognizes organizations that demonstrate the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology. The theme for this year's award was 'The Agile 100' which recognizes IT departments from leading Indian organizations for their exemplary technology initiatives that helped their organizations stay agile in the wake of the turbulent economy witnessed last year.

WNS was presented with the CIO 100 Award in recognition of its outstanding initiatives in architecting and deploying robust and cost-effective information security frameworks and monitoring practices.

"WNS's information security strategy has matured over the years with the right balance of intelligent security platforms and processes, coupled with a proactive monitoring framework, which is enabled by the 24x7 WNS Security Operations Center. This provides enhanced visibility into our enterprise-wide security in real-time. As a result, we can provide our business and end-customers with better threat management capabilities, enhanced data protection apart from delivering enhanced value," said Sanjay Jain, CIO and Head, Global Transformation Practice, WNS Global Services.

Speaking on the occasion, Vijay Ramachandran, Editor-in-Chief, CIO Magazine added, "Our congratulations to the winners who have truly paved the path for inspirational and industry-leading practices in IT."

About WNS
WNS is a leading global business process outsourcing company. Deep industry and business process knowledge, a partnership approach, comprehensive service offering and a proven track record enable WNS to deliver business value to some of the leading companies in the world. WNS is passionate about building a market-leading company valued by our clients, employees, business partners, investors and communities. For more information, visit http://www.wns.com.

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SOURCE: WNS

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