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Firewall/VPN Security Appliance Shipments Grow At 27%
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2004-09-08
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While 2003 was a year of slow recovery for most technology sectors, Firewall/VPN security appliance shipments grew at 27%, reports In-Stat/MDR.
The high-tech market research firm finds that the enterprise customer segment is fueling this growth, as corporations move from product trials to mass deployment. With a substantial concentration of large enterprises with more than 1,000 employees, North America currently represents approximately 49% of the market. However, Asia will dominate this market over the next few years.
"Corporations are also migrating from stand-alone perimeter firewall architectures to a multi-layered network security approach where security functions are distributed throughout the network," said Keith Nissen, a senior analyst with In-Stat/MDR. "This allows for greater refinement of security policies on a departmental, or even a work group basis." Low-End and Small-Medium Business (SMB) level products are currently being deployed by enterprises for department, as well as remote and branch office applications.
Integration is also a prevalent trend, according to Nissen. Security features typically found in High-End Firewall/VPN appliances are being integrated in lower-capacity product lines. Features, such as application proxies, intrusion detection and prevention and content filtering are giving low-end products a robust security feature set. Security feature sets are also being integrated with routers, gateways and switches. For corporations, this means fewer devices to purchase and manage. These secure network devices are rapidly dominating the Low-End and SMB product segments.
In-Stat/MDR has also found that:
-- Over the 2004-2008 forecast period, the Low-End and SMB product segments will exhibit the highest growth.
-- Secure Socket Layer (SSL) VPN shipments grew at a substantial 160% during 2003 as corporations sought to offer secure remote access to their ever more-mobile work force.
-- Price compression began to impact High-End and Super High-End products in early 2004. This will affect all product segments over the forecast period.
-- Cisco and Nokia dominated the High-End Firewall/VPN appliance market in 2003.
The report, "The Firewall/VPN Security Market: Hot...Hot...Hot!" (#IN0401357LN), analyzes technology/product trends in the Firewall/VPN appliance market, providing five-year forecasts by product segment and geographic region.
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