Information security (world market)

Market of cloud cybersecurity services

2013-2014: forecast

The market of cloud services of information security will reach at the end of 2013 already $2.1 billion in 2013, and in 2015 - $3.1 billion, Gartner Gartner Says Cloud-Based Security Services Market to Reach^[1] predicts]. Growth rates of the market will remain steadily high, analysts consider.

The research director of Gartner to Ruggero Contu notes that the companies working at this market have enough space for expansion. One of areas of the most powerful growth, he said, there will be an enciphering.

According to Gartner, the three of the most demanded cloud services on information security market will include protection of e-mail, service in ensuring web security and also management of identity and access in the near future (IAM - identity and access management).

But in terms of money the greatest gain in 2013-2014 is expected in segments of enciphering and electronic keys, event managements, the analysis of vulnerabilities and firewalls for web applications.

Questions of trust of users and that circumstance that all regional markets have the features so service providers need to study the offers more carefully remain restraining factors for the market of cloud security still. However, specify in Gartner, the universal growth of penetration of the SaaS-applications raises the trust level of users to cloud services.

Market of solutions of network security

2011: results of year

EMEA region

On March 12, 2012 Canalys announced results of assessment of the market of solutions of network security in EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) in the fourth quarter 2011. According to research company, its volume reached $674 million that is 9% more in comparison with the same period of previous year and is 12.8% more than the third quarter. Basic reasons of growth Nushin Hernandez, the analyst of Canalys, calls increase in investments into the systems of protection of the DoS-attacks and the growing concern of IT managers in penetration of smartphones and tablets of users into corporate infrastructure.

Especially considerably the trend was shown in Western Europe – despite serious reduction of the market in the countries of Southern Europe, in general in comparison with 2010 the region showed growth at the level of 9.7%. Russia and emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe also differ in good indicators – the market in the region grew by 14.9%. Political and economic instability in the Middle East and in a number of the countries of Africa led to freezing of projects and, as a result, reduction for 0.3%.

Market of network security of EMEA, the 4th quarter 2011

Source: Canalys, March, 2012 

The palm in the market of solutions of network security in EMEA region in the fourth quarter belongs to Cisco company. The volume of its deliveries in terms of money (in the prices for final customers) increased 18.8% in comparison with previous year, and the share made 26.6%. Hernandez considers that the company benefited from a number of large projects and aggressive price policy.

Check Point managed to achieve record results on the volume of income in the last quarter 2011 at all. Business of the company in a segment of solutions of network security grew by 19.2% that allowed to increase a share to 19.3%.

Decrease in investments into projects from outside led service of providers to fall of revenues of Juniper Networks by 14.6% whereas Fortinet managed to save growth rates at the level, comparable to leaders, – 10.3%. The last became possible thanks to the verified partner policy in the channel and to emergence in a solution portfolio for DPC – Analyst Alex, the senior analyst of Canalys claims.

Market of UTM solutions

2011: results of year

According to Gartner, in 2011 sales returns of multi-layer systems of protection of network perimeter (UTM – Unified Threat Management) grew by 19.6% and reached $1.2 billion.

According to Lawrence Pingri (Lawrence Pingree), the director of research of Gartner, the market of UTM solutions at the moment is in a transitional stage from morally growing old firewalls on the basis of technologies of inspection of packets taking into account a status of the protocol (stateful firewall inspection) to developments of the last generation with functions of control of applications. Efforts of all participants of this market are directed to maintenance of the designated trend within already several years. Vendors work on updating of product lines, in particular, of the UTM equipment for a segment of small and medium business and wireless networks.

On volumes of income first place in 2011 was won by Fortinet with a market share of 19.6%. Impressive indicators of growth at the level of 58.8% were shown by SECUI. Sales to the company are still mainly concentrated in the Pacific Rim, however it pursues the aim to enter global market, first of all, of the USA.

Revenues of vendors in 2011 in $ one million

Source: Gartner (March, 2012)

North America remains the most large market for UTM solutions with sales volume in 2011 of $431 million which grew by 15.5%. Interest of customers in the systems of protection of network perimeter is stirred here by actively developing ecosystem of electronic payments. Almost one and all companies are involved in transactions with participation of credit cards, and therefore need reliable firewalls and technologies of an intrusion prevention. These tools allow to resist effectively to network attacks and to provide reliable personal information protection of clients.

Naturally second in value market for UTM solutions is the region of Western Europe with a capacity of $310 million in 2011 – it is 16.7% more than an indicator of 2010.

Market of solutions for the analysis of threats

2009-2014: forecast

Limits of opportunities of cybersecurity specialists at the enterprises are almost exhausted because of existence of multiple types of security risks of corporate information systems. Therefore in the market of the analysis of potential threats steady demand forms.

According to the new overview of IDC company, this emerging market of the analysis of threats and services of protection will grow from $198 million in 2009 to $905 million in 2014.

In the market of services of protection and the analysis of threats TEConts and managements of information sources for development of intelligent systems of security of the enterprises are provided. However the situation in the market of protection of corporate data constantly changes because of emergence new, time of difficult recognizable attacks. Therefore services of this sort are in permanent development.

Christine Liebert, the senior analyst of IDC on security systems, notes that the companies fight, protecting herself as external threats become more resistant to instruments of detection of threats based on signatures.

According to her, becomes obvious that it is impossible to be protected from many of these threats using internal systems – the help from the outside is necessary. More and more companies understand it and pass to active actions, Lieber noted.

In the research IDC the following is also noted:

• many organizations in spite of the fact that they have some traditional instruments of information protection (firewalls, antiviruses, identifiers of users), still have no idea of what occurs time in their systems at present;

• the attacks become shorter (their duration can be less than two hours or several minutes), are more and more precisely aimed (for example, at specific URL, the person, the company or an IT asset) that even more complicates the subsequent detection, mitigation and recovery;

• the instruments of fight against the malware based on signatures (antiviruses, firewalls and software of detection of invasions) are effective only against 30-50% of the current threats;

• the market of services of the analysis of threats and products of security in North America grew year on year by 65% from 2010 to 2011, IDC reports;

• for the last five years malefactors broadened the sphere of the influence, offering small and medium business expensive target information (for example, financial, intellectual property and other data of owners).

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