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Cloud-based security services market to reach $2.1 billion in 2013
THE CLOUD-BASED security services market will be worth $2.1 billion in 2013, rising to $3.1 billion in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that growth in cloud-based security will remain strong, but revenue opportunities will vary.
“The cloud-based security market remains a viable one, offering providers many opportunities for expansion,” said Ruggero Contu, research director at Gartner.
“Encryption will be a new area of growth, but it remains a complex activity. The strongest interest will be in encryption products from cloud security brokers, which are relatively easy to deploy and have options for on-premises encryption management.”
Gartner predicts that the top three most sought-after cloud services moving forward will remain email security, web security services and identity and access management (IAM).
However, in 2013 and 2014, the highest growth is forecast to occur in cloud-based tokenisation and encryption, security information and event management (SIEM), vulnerability assessment and web application fi rewalls.
“Areas such as SIEM and IAM offer the biggest growth potential, although for SIEM this will be from a small base,” said Kelly Kavanagh, principal research analyst at Gartner. “The benefi ts cloud security offers — particularly encryption — are making it an increasingly popular choice.
However, trust concerns and regional variations mean that providers will have to assess each market opportunity carefully before deciding which to focus on.”
Overall adoption of software as a service (SaaS) applications and other cloud-based services encourages organizations to adopt cloud-based security controls. These are delivered either as stand-alone features
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or as part of an integrated SaaS package. Managed security services (MSS) are also driving adoption of cloud-based security services among enterprises. MSS delivery models are in turn being affected by demand for cloud-based security services, which is enabling security providers to become de facto MSS players.
“The benefi ts of deploying cloud-based security services are clear,” said Mr Kavanagh. “Aside from the broad area of IAM, specifi c controls, such as encryption, are becoming vital to the adoption of cloud computing. They are further helping to generate interest in this particular form of security service delivery.”
The transformation of security
THE NEXUS OF FORCES is transforming the approach towards information security as new requirements are brought about by social, mobile, cloud and information, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that traditional security models will be strained to the point that, by 2020, 60 percent of enterprise information security budgets will be allocated for rapid detection and response approaches. An increasingly mobile workforce is demanding access to systems and information at anytime from anywhere. In this interconnected and virtualized world, security policies tied to physical attributes and devices are becoming redundant and businesses must learn to accommodate new demands being made on IT.
“We are faced with a ‘perfect storm’ - the convergence of socialization, consumerization, virtualization and cloudifi cation that will force radical changes in information security infrastructure over the next decade,” said Tom Scholtz, vice president and Gartner fellow. “Organizations are changing radically - tearing down and redefi ning traditional boundaries via collaboration, outsourcing and the adoption of cloud-based services - and information security must change with them.”
Mr. Scholtz said that rapidly changing business and threat environments, as well as user demands, are stressing static security policy enforcement models. Information security infrastructure must become adaptive by incorporating additional context at the point when a security decision is made, and there are already signs of this transformation.
Software success for managing, access and sharing applications
IDC has released the latest results from the Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker. For the fi rst half of 2013 (1H13), the worldwide software market grew 5.5% year over year reaching a total market size of $179 billion, which is close to IDC’s forecast of 5.7% growth for the full year. It’s also slightly higher than 5.1% growth experienced in the fi rst half of 2012, which could be interpreted as a sign of recovery following a period of uncertainty caused by turmoil in the Eurozone. IDC expects this moderately positive scenario to continue for several more years.
“Enterprises are seeing new opportunities to drive new and improved products and services by leveraging information. Therefore, it stands to reason that software to manage, access, and share information (structured and unstructured) continues to be a priority for competing in today’s economy and a driver of software market growth,” said Henry D. Morris, Senior Vice President for Worldwide Software, Services and Executive Advisory Research.
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