Organisations will spend £10.2bn in 2010 onsecuring their networksand systems,
UK market analystDatamonitorhas said, up 32% from the
£7bn they will spend this year.
But Alaa Owaineh, an associate analyst at the firm, said that
different sectors will grow at significantly different rates.
"There is a big rise in the importance of
data protection,
data-loss prevention and
encryption," he said. "Another area that is growing quickly,
although its debatable if one should include it with IT security or
management, is the area of IT auditing and risk management."
Other sectors, such as
virtual private networks (VPNs) and
firewalls, are growing much more slowly, Owaineh added -
although with certain faster growth areas, such as the use of
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for VPNs.
In a report, Decision Matrix: Selecting an Enterprise Security
Vendor, Owaineh writes that consolidation is likely among
suppliers. "End-users are fed up with buying 30 solutions from 30
vendors. They want three or four that will integrate easily," he
said, adding that company acquisitions will speed this process.
Such purchases have been common in recent weeks, with Google
buying Postini, PatchLink buying SecureWave and, on 18 July,
Oracle buying
its Silicon Valley neighbour identity theft and fraud
detection supplier Bharosa for an undisclosed amount..
Owaineh said Symantec, McAfee and IBM are well-placed to become
primary suppliers of IT security, providing a framework to
organisations and claiming much of their spending, although this
will leave space for specialist providers such as Check Point and
RSA. Symantec does not provide identity management, preferring to
focus on infrastructure, while McAfee has more depth than breadth
than Symantec, he said.
He added that IBM is adding security functions to its existing
infrastructure products. "IBM sees the future of many aspects of
enterprise security as part of infrastructure security, things like
placing data protection in the infrastructure," said Owaineh.
This story first appeared on the
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