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A new report by independent market analyst Datamonitor (DTM.L), predicts global enterprise investment in firewall and virtual private network (VPN) solutions will reach almost $6 billion in 2007, double that of 2003. Increased publicity of threats and security breakers, recent worms and viruses, all have highlighted the deficiencies in current security solutions and clarified the need for them. According to the report "Firewall and VPN solutions," home working and the push for mobility/anywhere-anytime access for workers will see enterprise investment in secure sockets layer (SSL) VPNs in particular, soar to achieve a staggering 74 per cent compound annual growth between 2003-2007. The recent acquisitions in this market such as Neoteris by Netscreen, who in turn has been acquired by Juniper Networks, and Safe Web by Symantec, show the aggressive positioning of vendors to gain market share in the high- growth SSL VPN market and such strategies will no doubt continue in the future. North America will remain the largest market and continue to provide the most revenues, predicted to reach $2.6 billion, although Latin America, followed by Asia Pacific will be the fastest growing. Datamonitor expects investment in security solutions by the government, utilities and pharmaceutical sectors to show the most rapid rise.