Worldwide security software revenue totaled $21.4 billion in 2014, a 5.3 percent increase from 2013 revenue of $20.3 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. Low growth in endpoint protection platforms and a decline in consumer security software — markets that together account for 39 percent of the market — offset the strong performance of high-growth areas, such as security information and event management (SIEM), secure Web gateway (SWG), identity governance and administration (IGA) and enterprise content-aware data loss prevention (DLP).
"Overall market growth was up slightly in 2014 to 5.3 percent from 4.9 percent in 2013," said Sid Deshpande, principal research analyst at Gartner. "Even though the SWG segment experienced single-digit growth in 2014, cloud-based and hybrid SWG deployments are becoming increasingly popular. As organizations' corporate data traffic becomes more exposed to the Internet and moves out of the control of traditional network security boundaries, SWG technologies continue to be an important piece of the overall security technology strategy of most enterprises."
Table 1. Top Security Software Vendors, Worldwide, 2013-2014
(Millions of Dollars)
Company
|
2014 Revenue
|
2014 Market
Share (%)
|
2013 Revenue
|
2013-2014
Growth (%)
|
Symantec
|
3,690
|
17.2
|
3,738
|
-1.3
|
Intel
|
1,825
|
8.5
|
1,745
|
4.6
|
IBM
|
1,486
|
6.9
|
1,270
|
17.0
|
Trend Micro
|
1,052
|
4.9
|
1,110
|
-5.2
|
EMC
|
798.0
|
3.7
|
760
|
5.0
|
Others
|
12,571
|
58.8
|
12,995
|
-3.2
|
Total
|
21,422
|
100.0
|
20,348
|
5.3
|
Source: Gartner (May 2015)
"Overall market growth was up slightly in 2014 to 5.3 percent from 4.9 percent in 2013," said Sid Deshpande, principal research analyst at Gartner. "Even though the SWG segment experienced single-digit growth in 2014, cloud-based and hybrid SWG deployments are becoming increasingly popular. As organizations' corporate data traffic becomes more exposed to the Internet and moves out of the control of traditional network security boundaries, SWG technologies continue to be an important piece of the overall security technology strategy of most enterprises."