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Campbell, CALIFORNIA, August 26, 2009—Communications market research firm Infonetics Research released the second quarter (2Q09) edition of its Content Security Appliances and Software report.
ANALYST NOTE
“The availability of commercial hacking tools, rental botnets, and the overall transformation of hacking from hobby to business has caused an explosion in security threats everywhere. Spam is at an all time high and hackers are leveraging new social media platforms to launch attacks. Facebook and Twitter have had some security challenges recently, and researchers have even discovered a Twitter-based botnet. Many companies react to these threats and to problems in their networks by investing in content security on an ‘as needed’ basis. This reactive buying and lack of planning makes it impossible to stop spending on content security in many cases, which in turn keeps the content security market going,” explains Jeff Wilson, principal analyst for network security at Infonetics Research.
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
- Worldwide content security gateway revenue grew 1.5% 1Q09 to 2Q09, hitting $544 million
- A year ago, Infonetics forecast the content security market would hit $555 million in 2Q09 (forecast was within 2%)
- The renewed interest in software due to virtualization, cloud computing, and SaaS, combined with astronomical growth in security threats, will drive the content security software and appliance market to grow to $3.2 billion in 2013
- McAfee increased its lead in worldwide revenue share in the overall content security gateway market in 2Q09
- Most content security vendors reported “business as usual under the circumstances,” with very positive expectations for 3Q09 based on billings so far
- Service providers continue to upgrade their networks and build out data centers and mobile backhaul networks to support massive growth in wired and wireless traffic, and are now catching up with the security deployments needed to support them
- The North American content security market is expected to pass the $1 billion mark for the first time in 2009
REPORT SYNOPSIS
Infonetics’ quarterly content security report provides worldwide and regional market share, market size, forecasts through 2013, and analysis of content security gateways, broken out by software and appliances, including messaging, Web/malware, and integrated appliances. The service tracks BlueCoat, Cisco, Citrix, McAfee, SonicWALL, Symantec, Trend Micro, Websense, and others.
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