Infonetics Research: Turmoil Among Top Content Security Players Creates Unique Opportunity for Leadership Change

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Market research firm Infonetics Research today released vendor market share standings and market forecasts from its third quarter (3Q11) Content Security Appliances and Software report.

ANALYST NOTE

“There’s a bit of business turmoil going on in the content security gateway market, with three of the top players facing challenges: Blue Coat with its recently turned-over CEO and scrutiny over its products being used to control web traffic in Syria; Websense still trying to court a buyer; and McAfee’s cloudy future since the Intel acquisition. This creates an interesting situation rarely seen in a high-growth market like content security gateways; business turmoil among the top players will create a great opportunity for somebody else to step in and grab market share, a role that Cisco appears more than happy to play,” notes Jeff Wilson, principal analyst for security at Infonetics Research.

CONTENT SECURITY MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

• McAfee maintained its 1^st place position in overall content security gateway revenue share in 3Q11, followed closely by Cisco
  • Less than 1 market share point separates 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th place vendors Cisco, Websense and Symantec
• Cisco held onto the lead it took the previous quarter in the appliance segment, ahead of Blue Coat
• Global content security gateway appliance and software sales dipped 1.7% in 3Q11 over 2Q11, to $753 million, atypical for the third quarter
• From the year-ago third quarter, the content security appliances and software market is up 5.6%
• Infonetics forecasts the content security appliance and software market to be up 11% in 2011 and to grow to $3.7 billion by 2015
• The hybrid content security market – messaging, anti virus (AV), malware, and web security solutions involving a mix of on-premise appliances/software and cloud security services/SaaS – is forecast by Infonetics to more than double between 2011 and 2015

REPORT SYNOPSIS

Infonetics’ quarterly Content Security Appliances and Software report provides worldwide and regional market share, market size, forecasts, and analysis of content security gateway software and appliances (messaging, Web/malware, integrated) and hybrid content security deployments for messaging and AV/malware/web applications. Vendors tracked: Barracuda, Blue Coat, Cisco, Citrix, McAfee, SonicWALL, Symantec, Trend Micro, WatchGuard, Websense, and others.

Download report prospectuses, tables of contents, highlights, etc. at http://www.infonetics.com/login (see SECURITY).

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UPCOMING MARKET SHARE / FORECAST REPORTS

• Virtual Security Appliances (Dec. 8)
• Total Security Pivot Quarterly Report (Dec. 14)
• DDoS Prevention Appliance Market Outlook (Dec. 20)

UPCOMING SERVICE PROVIDER SURVEYS

• Service Provider Security Drivers, Spending, and Vendor Leadership (Dec. 16)
• Cloud and Data Center Security Strategies and Vendor Leadership (2012)

UPCOMING ENTERPRISE SURVEYS

• Application Control Drivers, Spending, and Vendor Leadership (2012)
• Data Center Security Strategies and Vendor Leadership (2012)
• Mobile Security Strategies and Vendor Leadership (2012)
• Security Strategy for On-Premise, Hosted, and Hybrid Solutions (2012)

SALES

• Larry Howard, VP, Western NA, Asia, CALA: larry@infonetics.com, +1-408-583-3335
• Scott Coyne, Eastern NA, Texas, Midwest: scott@infonetics.com, +1-408-583-3395
• George Stojsavljevic, EMEA: george@infonetics.com, +44-755-488-1623
• Japan, Taiwan, Korea: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp

Infonetics Research 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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CONTACT:

Lead Analyst
Jeff Wilson, +1-408-583-3337
Principal Analyst, Security
Infonetics Research
jeff@infonetics.com
http://twitter.com/securityjeff

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