Perhaps because of diverse threats and complex integrated solutions customers are moving away from traditional models, researcher says RSA President Amit Yoran kicked off this year’s RSA Conference by proclaiming boldly that many security solutions are fundamentally broken. Yoran urged vendors to develop new, more effective technologies, and customers attending the conference echoed this sentiment. Customers are looking for radically different approaches to protect their assets from advanced attacks such as zero-day, evasive and persistent attacks.
To support these new approaches, customers will increase investments in two key areas in 2015, says researcher TBRI: endpoint agents that look different from the agents of the past and managed security services (MSSes) that go beyond the monitoring and alerting services that make up the bulk of many managed security service providers’ portfolios. TBR expects worldwide revenue for endpoint-based advanced threat detection and response (D&R) products and for advanced threat D&R managed services to increase 16.1% and 28.6% year-to-year, respectively, per year for the next two years. IBM, Intel, Dell SecureWorks, HP, FireEye and Webroot are well positioned to capture much of this revenue growth based on their portfolio offerings in these segments, it says.
TBRI says that customers will reduce their investments in network perimeter defense products, solutions that rely heavily on sandboxing technologies, and traditional security information and event management systems (SIEMs). As a result, worldwide revenue in these segments will grow at a slower pace of approximately 9% year-to-year for the next two years. Vendors such as Cisco, Juniper Networks and Huawei with portfolios heavily weighted in these technologies will experience slowed enterprise security revenue growth.