BEIJING, Aug. 11 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- CCID Consulting, China’s leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: 8235.HK), recently released its article on China’s information security market in 2008Q2.
CCID Consulting’s latest data shows that China’s information security product market reached 1.827 billion Yuan in 2008Q2, up 25.4% year-on-year. Product structure has changed drastically: firewall and IDS shares are still decreasing, with firewall shares down 1.8% over 2007Q2; new trendy markets are gradually becoming more active, such as terminal security management, security management, SOC and UTM, their growth rate is respectively 38.1%, 37.8%, 32.4% and 27%. Based on characteristic products and service’s rapid development, EMC-RSA, Venus and Websense will impact the market with its powerful competitive edge.
In product segments, the market has following four characteristics:
1. Service assurance and disaster prevention demands are driving the development of disaster backup
After China encountered natural disasters such as the 2008 snowstorm and the Sichuan earthquake, communications were interrupted, governmental and enterprises’ information system paralysis caused great losses. Disaster prevention and reduction become a new focus. Information system’s safety guarantee has been improved to a new height, which drives disaster backup planning and the construction process of governments, banks, electric power, civil aviation, railway, securities, tax, custom and insurance. The demands for service and disaster backup outsourcing, disaster recovery, business continuous planning and consulting, data recovery, business continuous management service, continuous data protection, data remote replication, and system disaster recovery are all increasing rapidly. Disaster backup’s software, hardware, solutions and services provided by IBM, HP, GDS, Symantec, SEPATON, NetApp and BakBone are more mature. Disaster backup market’s development space will be wider.
2. Competition is Heating up, 10 Gigabit is UTM’s Next Focus
As the segment product with the rapidest development in China’s information security product market in 2007, UTM attracts domestic and foreign manufacturers’ broad attention. Fortinet and Venustech are the top two in this market; however, restricted by performance, their practical application could not attain the desired effect. Therefore, many manufacturers will challenge 10 gigabit in 2008. On May 28, Venustech launched the 10 gigabit multi-core UTM platform -- USG-10000, becoming the second manufacturer which produces 10 gigabit firewall and IPS, following Crossbeam. On June 25, LeadSec launched 10 gigabit UTM security gateway solutions. Together with Fortine’s contribution, UTM industrial application’s biggest obstacle -- performance bottleneck -- achieved a breakthrough, 10 gigabit UTM has become one of security manufacturers’ strengths’ symbols; however, OEM or simple imitation is not enough to support continued development, China’s UTM manufacturers need to further improve independent R&D ability to give fiercer competition in the future.
3. Pay Attention to Ability, Qualification Becomes the Criteria to Information Security Service Providers
Information security service’s wide popularity is attracting more and more participants. As a new business, its market needs to be normative: Beijing and Jiangsu are active to make e-government information security service qualification identification criteria, which provides criteria to information security system integration, information system risk assessment, and information security consulting and system security operation maintenance ability. Security service manufacturers with powerful strengths such as Venustech, Neusoft, TOPSEC, Taiji, 30 SAN Information System and Netpower have acquired first class qualification in Beijing Information Security Service Ability Evaluation, which shows qualification has become a criteria to information security service providers.
4. Improve Efficiency, Enterprise Internet’s Behavior Management Market Is Heating up
Enterprise Internet’s behavior management carries through strategy selection, monitoring, and auditing to the behaviors which visit internal organizations so as to improve production efficiency and network resources’ utilization, prevent security threats and sensitive information leakage. Management category not only limits in network security management, but also covers enterprise management and development. Therefore, with the promotion of NetentSec Inc., Websense and SINFOR, enterprise Internet behavior management market will attract more and more attention. Brand recognition will be the key of next stage competition.
About CCID Consulting
CCID Consulting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter known as CCID Consulting), the first Chinese consulting firm listed in the Growth Enterprise Market of the Stock Exchange (GEM) of Hong Kong (stock code: 8235.HK), is directly affiliated with China Center for Information Industry Development (hereinafter known as CCID Group). Headquartered in Beijing, CCID Consulting has so far set up branch offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Chengdu, with over 300 professional consultants after many years of development. The company’s business scope has covered over 200 large and medium-sized cities in China.
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Cynthia Liu
Coordinating Manager
CCID Consulting Co., Ltd.
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Email: liuyan@ccidconsulting.com
