Towards an education-specific security solution

Publication Date	October 2006
Publisher	Datamonitor
Product Type	Report
Pages	14
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	DAT04201

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Summary

Introduction

Education institutions have distinct IT security needs and a strong awareness of the threats will drive the robust adoption of solutions.

Scope

Secure content management and identity and access management stand out in importance
Education will show strong demand for security appliance consolidation
North America will continue to dominate while all regions display strong growth
Growth in individual applications echoes the priorities of the different levels of education

Highlights

This report provides insight in the specific technology security needs of educational institutions from primary schools and kindergartens to universities and colleges.

Reasons to Purchase

Understand the features and functionality that security solutions must have in order to meet the needs of education institutions
Discover the size of the market by level of education security application area
Learn the future direction of the market through detailed forecasts of market size

Content

Catalyst
Summary
Methodology
- AnaLYSIS
- Secure content management and identity and access management stand out in importance
- IDm will be particularly vital to the higher levels of education and larger institutions
- Secure content management will be the primary concern of in the education of younger students
- Firewall and VPN solutions will remain important at all levels but particularly for offsite access in HEIs
- More advanced security solutions will be less popular in education than in other sectors
- Education will show strong demand for security appliance consolidation
- Low budgets and lack of trained personnel will help to drive demand for different product combinations
- Education institutions stand to benefit from three forms of solution consolidation
- North America will continue to dominate while all regions display strong growth
- All regions and levels in education will see strong growth
- Europe will see faster growth in HEIs in contrast to North America
- Growth in individual applications matches the priorities of the different levels of education
- IDm will remain the largest segment while security and vulnerability management grows fastest
- HEIs and primary and secondary institutions will continue to display very different adoption patterns
Actions
- Vendors should market appliances incorporating content filtering to lower education levels
- Provisioning and other IDm should be offered to HEIs
Appendix
- Definitions
- Extended methodology
Further reading
- Ask the analyst
List of Figures
- Figure 1: Education security purchasing intentions compared with all vertical markets
- Figure 2: The needs of education institutions will help to drive solution consolidation
- Figure 3: Education spending on IT security in Europe and North America by region, 2006 to 2010
- Figure 4: Proportion of education IT security spending by primary and secondary institutions, 2006 to 2010
- Figure 5: IT security spending in Europe and North America by application, 2006 to 2010
- Figure 6: Spending on IT security applications by level of institution for 2006