Posted on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Worldwide Security Software Market Grows 20%
Computer Weekly
Worldwide security software revenue grew by 20% last year, according to analyst Gartner.
The analyst said worldwide security software sales totaled £5.2bn in 2007, an increase of 19.8% from 2006 revenue of £4.3bn.
Gartner said there was an increasing shift towards offering appliance-based products, particularly within certain segments such as e-mail security and secure web gateway markets.
Ruggero Contu, an analyst at Gartner, said, “Compliance, data leakage and privacy issues, along with the need to tackle the fast evolving and sophisticated threat environment, are among the major drivers fuelling the growth of spending on security.”
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