2013/09/14 SaaS content security market to top $1 billion by 2017

Campbell, CALIFORNIA, September 12, 2013—Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its 2nd quarter (2Q13) Content Security Gateway Appliances, Software, and SaaS market share and forecast report.

“Though the overall content security market has been slowly sliding downhill, SaaS (security-as-a-service) continues to grow, as does content security functionality in firewalls and UTM (unified threat management) appliances,” observes Jeff Wilson, principal analyst for security at Infonetics Research.

• Infonetics forecasts the SaaS segment of the content security market to grow to just over $1 billion by 2017
• The global content security gateway appliance and software market declined 1.4% between 1Q13 and 2Q13, to $689 million
• Blue Coat ranks 1st in content security gateway revenue market share, followed, in alphabetical order, by Cisco, McAfee, Symantec and Websense
• In the emerging SaaS segment, Microsoft takes an early lead, with Symantec, McAfee, Cisco and Proofpoint also positioning well in 2Q13