Enterprises want application control solutions with broad app support, look to existing firewall and IPS first

Campbell, CALIFORNIA, July 10, 2012—Market research firm Infonetics Research published its new Application Control Drivers, Spending, and Vendor Leadership: North American Enterprise Survey, for which medium and large organizations were surveyed to assess their plans and to analyze trends in the application control market, including perceived vendor strengths and weaknesses.

"The application control market is new to mainstream buyers, and many of them are sorting through deployment models, solution types, and the broad range of vendors coming at them with application control solutions," explains Jeff Wilson, principal analyst for security at Infonetics Research. "Enterprises we interviewed for our application control survey are looking for solutions that support legacy client servers, newer web-based applications, and mobile applications, and they're seeking integrated security platforms that can help them cover all those applications, starting with their existing firewall and intrusion prevention system (IPS) solutions."

APPLICATION CONTROL SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS

• The top 2 drivers for investing in application control solutions: protect against data theft and financial loss, and enforce application usage policies
• The #1 application that survey respondents plan to monitor and control is e-mail, followed by real-time communications applications like Skype and Facetime
• Enterprises rated Cisco highest in every leadership criterion (technology, product roadmap, security, etc.), with McAfee close behind

SURVEY SYNOPSIS

Infonetics' June 2012 20-page Application Control Drivers, Spending, and Vendor Leadership survey is based on interviews with knowledgeable IT purchase-decision makers at 108 enterprise organizations in the US and Canada that have deployed application control solutions and have 101 or more employees (just over half of the respondents have more than 1,000 employees). The report includes analysis of end-user responses to questions about application control purchase drivers and barriers, applications, spending plans, product types, deployment plans, and vendors.

The survey features respondent ratings of 8 application control solution vendors: Check Point, Cisco, HP, Juniper, McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, SonicWALL, and WatchGuard, based on 8 criteria: technology, product roadmap, security, management, price-to-performance ratio, pricing, financial stability, and service and support. Vendors named in additional vendor-related questions in the survey include Barracuda, Blue Coat, Fortinet, IBM, Microsoft, Stonesoft, Symantec, Websense, and zScaler. To buy the survey, contact Infonetics sales: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.

RELATED SECURITY RESEARCH

• Latest Infonetics Security research brief: http://bit.ly/MdELlf
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• On-demand webinar: SECURING YOUR EMPLOYEES' MOBILE DEVICES (Infonetics, IBM, Juniper)

UPCOMING SECURITY MARKET SHARE & FORECAST REPORTS

See SECURITY at http://www.infonetics.com/login for report highlights, tables of contents, etc., or download Infonetics’ 2012 Research Publication Calendar: http://bit.ly/zwjcRs.

• Content Security Gateway Appliances, Software and SaaS Market Share and Forecast
• Network Security Appliances and Software Market Share and Forecast
• Cloud and CPE Managed Security Services Market Size and Forecast
• Total Security Pivot Market Share and Forecast
• Security Client Software Market Share and Forecast
• DDoS Prevention Appliance Market Share and Forecast

UPCOMING SECURITY SURVEYS

• Security Strategy for On-Premise, Hosted & Hybrid Solutions: Enterprise Survey
• Cloud & Data Center Security Strategies & Vendor Leadership: Service Provider Survey

UPCOMING LEADERSHIP SCORECARDS

• Telecommunications Equipment Vendor Leadership Scorecard
• Enterprise Communications Equipment Vendor Leadership Scorecard

TO BUY REPORTS, CONTACT SALES:

• N. America (West), Asia, Latin America: Larry Howard, larry@infonetics.com, +1-408-583-3335
• N. America (East), Texas, Midwest: Scott Coyne, scott@infonetics.com, +1-408-583-3395
• Europe, Middle East, Africa: George Stojsavljevic, george@infonetics.com, +44-755-488-1623
• Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp

INFONETICS IS HIRING

Infonetics is expanding rapidly and is looking to hire more analysts, including a senior Industry Analyst: Mobile and Home Networking Devices; Market Analyst: Enterprise VoIP; Market Research Manager; and more. See http://bit.ly/jmXOYO for job descriptions.

Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) is an international market research and consulting firm serving the communications industry since 1990. A leader in defining and tracking emerging and established technologies in all world regions, Infonetics helps clients plan, strategize, and compete more effectively.

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