Future Opportunities in IT Security

Vendor Strategies, Enterprise Investment and Market Outlook

Publication Date	May 2007
Publisher	Business Insights
Product Type	Report
Pages	91
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	RBI00140

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Summary

As organizations continue to align IT solutions with their business processes, spend on vulnerability assessment and security management is growing rapidly, which indicates a desire to measure and understand IT security risks in business terms. In addition, the nature of the threats that organizations face is constantly evolving as new technologies, practices and attack vectors emerge. Future Opportunities in IT Security is a new management report that provides insights into the thinking behind IT security decision makers and buyers. This report examines the important factors influencing investment in IT security and vendor choice. It gives forecasts for IT spending on individual security products up to 2010 and investigates the emerging security threats, the vendor opportunity by region and vertical, as well as by size of organization. It also analyzes the fast-growing market for security and privacy (S&P) outsourcing, and profiles the leading vendors - including Symantec, Check Point, McAfee and Microsoft - in the market. Use the invaluable analysis in this new report to plan ahead, avoid potential risks and create a strong competitive advantage.

Some key findings in this new report...

Security is an issue that remains a number one IT priority for most organizations.
New security areas such as security information management and vulnerability and patch management will grow rapidly up to 2010.
As the enterprise IT security market has grown, the financial services and communications sectors have grown faster than other sectors. Previous years have shown retail and manufacturing sectors have accepted the need for greater security investment more slowly, and will consequently grow at a faster rate than the market going forward.
Many vendors view the SMB sector as the fastest growth market in the security market; the SMB space will also provide an important growth opportunity for hosted and managed security services.
Security and privacy (S&P) managed services represent the fastest growing infrastructure services market.

Top reasons to order this new report today...

Understand enterprises' approach to buying IT security.
Develop go-to-market strategies that target organization's weak spots and provide the support they are looking for, thereby improving sales.
Target emerging, fast-growing security markets more effectively.
Identify market opportunities by region, vertical and size band.
Discover and understand the product roadmaps of the leading vendors.
Design channel strategies to win a share of the SMB IT security market.

Some key questions answered in this report...

What are organization's main security concerns and requirements?
Who is the buying decision maker for IT security within different sized organizations?
Where are the market opportunities by region and vertical?
Who is the market leader in the security market?
Which other vendors dominate the security market?
How can I target IT security decision makers more effectively?
What are the fastest growing areas within the security market?
How popular is security outsourcing now - and in coming years?

Some hot issues covered in this report...

Worms targeting applications rather than operating systems are on the increase - how malware writers no longer go for large Blaster-style damaging attacks.
Aligning products and solutions along vertical lines - and how this will help vendors.
Large enterprises - their deployment of security solutions compared to medium or smaller sized organizations.
SMB sector as the fastest growth sector in the security market - and how vendors must move fast to secure channel partners.
Security and privacy (S&P) managed services - and how enterprises are looking to simplify the management of their increasingly complex IT security systems.

This new report will provide you with...

Worms targeting applications rather than operating systems are on the increase - how malware writers no longer go for large Blaster-style damaging attacks.
Aligning products and solutions along vertical lines - and how this will help vendors.
Large enterprises - their deployment of security solutions compared to medium or smaller sized organizations.
SMB sector as the fastest growth sector in the security market - and how vendors must move fast to secure channel partners.
Security and privacy (S&P) managed services - and how enterprises are looking to simplify the management of their increasingly complex IT security systems.

This new report will provide you with...

Explanation of how enterprises approach IT security buying decisions and what factors influence their choice of vendor.
Outline of vendor strategies for improving sales.
Competitive vendor analysis.
Explanation of trends occurring in the marketplace.
Breakdown of spending on IT security by product type up to 2010.
Identification of emerging and fast-growing security markets.

Content

Executive Summary
- Market outlook
- Emerging security threats
- IT security opportunities by region and vertical
- Enterprise adoption of IT security
- SMB adoption of IT security
- The enterprise view of security outsourcing
- Vendor overview
Chapter 1 Introduction
- What is this report about?
- Who is this report for?
Chapter 2 Market outlook
- Summary
- The market opportunity
- Vendor strategies
- Changes in enterprises' security needs
- Industry issues
- Ease of integration
- Ease of management
- Return on investment
- Business issues
- Innovation largely continues to come from smaller vendors
- Acquisitions still provide the best route to filling portfolio gaps
- The Microsoft effect
- Technology issues
- The shift towards appliances
- The emergence of multi-function security appliances
- Embedding security within existing solutions
- IT spending on security
Chapter 3 Emerging security threats
- Summary
- A new breed of security threats
- Viruses
- Spam
- Directory harvest attacks (DHAs)
- Phishing
- Spyware
- IM and P2P security
- Web services security
- WLAN security
- Focus on education
- Encourage granular WLAN security policies
- Promote greater use of more advanced security solutions
- VoIP security
- Work closely with end-user focus groups
- Develop solutions with in-built security functionality
- Consistent security policies
- Mobile security
- Ease of integration and installation
- 'In the cloud' security solutions
- Promote phones as authentication devices in their own right
Chapter 4 IT security opportunities by
- region and vertical
- Summary
- Regional investment in IT security
- Vertical investment in IT security
Chapter 5 Enterprise adoption of IT security
- Summary
- Large enterprise approach to IT security
- Medium-sized enterprise approach to IT security
Chapter 6 SMB adoption of IT security
- Summary
- SMB approach to IT security
- On-site deployment vs. hosted services
Chapter 7 The enterprise view of security
- outsourcing
- Summary
- The case for infrastructure outsourcing
- Security and privacy managed services
- Banking is the largest target market for security services providers
- German and UK enterprises' stricter security approaches provide good
- opportunities
Chapter 8 Vendor overview
- Summary
- Choosing an IT solutions provider
- Geographical and size differences
- Symantec leads the security market
- Vendor dynamics
- Symantec
- Check Point
- McAfee
- Microsoft
- Index
List of Figures
- Figure 2.1: The security market is relatively saturated, with firewall and VPN technologies leading
- the way
- Figure 2.2: Enterprise applications and security are set to receive the most investment despite their
- high market penetration
- Figure 3.3: Email-based threats and their relative importance
- Figure 3.4: Have security fears held back the deployment of WLAN in your organization?
- Figure 3.5: Have security fears held back the deployment of VoIP in your organization?
- Figure 3.6: Elements of the network where mobile security solutions can be placed
- Figure 5.7: Most influential positions within large enterprises when making investment decisions
- regarding security solutions
- Figure 5.8: Large enterprises' preferred approach to buying security solutions
- Figure 5.9: Most influential positions within medium-sized enterprises when making investment
- decisions regarding security solutions
- Figure 5.10: Medium-sized enterprises' preferred approach to buying security solutions
- Figure 6.11: Extent to which small enterprises currently have or use security solutions
- Figure 6.12: Most influential positions within small enterprises when making investment decisions
- regarding security solutions
- Figure 6.13: Small enterprises' preferred approach to buying security solutions
- Figure 7.14: Enterprise outsourcing and managed services market conceptualization
- Figure 7.15: Solid, if unspectacular, growth is forecast in infrastructure outsourcing and managed
- services
- Figure 7.16: Strong revenue growth is forecast in the S&P managed services market
- Figure 7.17: Likely to outsource security and privacy in the next two years
- Figure 8.18: Vendors that large enterprises believe to be leaders in the field of security solutions
- Figure 8.19: Vendors that medium-sized enterprises believe to be leaders in the field of security
- solutions
- Figure 8.20: Vendors that small enterprises believe to be leaders in the field of security solutions
List of Tables
- Table 2.1: Global enterprise security market forecast 2006-2010 ($m)
- Table 4.2: Global enterprise security market forecast, 2006 to 2010, by geographic region ($m)
- Table 4.3: Global enterprise security market forecast for financial services 2006-2010 ($m)
- Table 4.4: Global enterprise security market forecast for manufacturing 2006-2010 ($m)
- Table 5.5: Extent to which large enterprises currently have or use security solutions
- Table 5.6: Extent to which medium-sized enterprises currently have or use security solutions
- Table 7.7: Do you outsource security now or are you considering outsourcing in the next months? 2 years?