CAMPBELL, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/30/11 — Market research firm today released vendor market share standings and market forecasts from two second quarter (2Q11) security market reports: and .
” took the lead in the content security appliance segment in the second quarter of 2011, now ahead of , and moved into second place after in the overall content security market. While Cisco will have a hard time beating their impressive 2Q11 performance in this space next quarter, we believe Federal spending — despite soft expectations — will help most content security gateway vendors increase revenue in 3Q11. In the network security appliance and software market, all of the major network security vendors are poised for growth in 3Q11, with most growing in the 5% to 10% range for the quarter,” expects , principal analyst for security at .
Global content security gateway appliance and software sales grew 8% in 2Q11 over 1Q11 to $766 million, a typical second quarter rebound after a seasonally soft first quarter
Year-over-year (2Q10 to 2Q11), the content security gateway market is up 18%
The worldwide content security market hit $2.7 billion in 2010, up 19% over 2009
Infonetics forecasts the content security appliance and software market will grow to $3.9 billion by 2015
The worldwide network security appliance and software market grew 4% in 2Q11 to $1.37 billion
The second half of 2011 shows no sign of slowdown from a threat publicity perspective; Anonymous continues to find new targets (BART and Facebook being the most notable), and the University of Wisconsin and Yale both disclosed large potential breaches
maintains its lead in the overall network security appliance and software market with close to a third of the revenue, and moves into 2 ahead of on the strength of its revenue increase in 2Q11 (Check Point network security revenue up 10.5%)
Infonetics expects the global network security appliance and software market to grow 4% in 2011
Infonetics- quarterly report provides worldwide and regional market share, market size, forecasts through 2015, and analysis of content security gateway software and content security gateway appliances (messaging, Web/malware, integrated). As of 2Q11, the report also includes market size and forecasts for hybrid content security deployments for messaging and AV/malware/web applications. Companies tracked: and .
Infonetics- quarterly report provides worldwide and regional market share, market size, forecasts through 2015, and analysis of integrated security appliances by price, secure routers by price, SSL VPN gateways, VPN and firewall software, and in-line and traditional network-based intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) products. Companies tracked: and .
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Jeff Wilson
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Infonetics Research
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