New Gartner report provides detailed market share results by region and segment for the security software industry.
Driven by continued growth in the antivirus software market, worldwide security software revenue totaled USD7.4 billion in 2005, a 14.8 per cent increase from 2004 revenue of USD6.4 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. Antivirus software revenue totaled USD4 billion in 2005, and it accounted for 54.3 per cent of the total security software industry.
Gartner expects that the industry will continue to experience strong growth for the next few years as compliance and government regulations continue to play a significant role in security spending decisions.
Symantec continued to lead the security software market in 2005, as its market share totaled 32.2 per cent of worldwide revenue (see Table below). Symantec continued to be the dominant vendor in the antivirus segment, as its sales accounted for 53.6 per cent of the market.
Table
Worldwide: Security Software Revenue Estimates for 2005 (U.S. Dollars)
Company: Symantec
2005 Revenue: USD2,382M
2005 Market Share: 32.2 per cent
2004 Revenue: USD2,078M
2004 Market Share: 32.2 per cent
2004-2005 Growth: 14.6 per cent
Company: McAfee
2005 Revenue: USD918M
2005 Market Share: 12.4 per cent
2004 Revenue: USD816M
2004 Market Share: 12.7 per cent
2004-2005 Growth: 12.5 per cent
Company: Trend Micro
2005 Revenue: USD630M
2005 Market Share: 8.5 per cent
2004 Revenue: USD551M
2004 Market Share: 8.5 per cent
2004-2005 Growth: 14.4 per cent
Company: CA
2005 Revenue: USD438M
2005 Market Share: 5.9 per cent
2004 Revenue: USD398M
2004 Market Share: 6.2 per cent
2004-2005 Growth: 10.1 per cent
Company: IBM
2005 Revenue: USD299M
2005 Market Share: 4.0 per cent
2004 Revenue: USD281M
2004 Market Share: 4.4 per cent
2004-2005 Growth: 6.6 per cent
Other Vendors
2005 Revenue: USD2,733M
2005 Market Share: 37.0 per cent
2004 Revenue: USD2,321M
2004 Market Share: 36.0 per cent
2004-2005 Growth: 17.1 per cent
Total
2005 Revenue: USD7,400M
2005 Market Share: 100.0 per cent
2004 Revenue: USD6,446M
2004 Market Share: 100.0 per cent
2004-2005 Growth: 14.8 per cent
Source: Gartner Dataquest (September 2006)
The fastest growth segment within the security software market was the e-mail security boundary market. This segment grew 34.2 per cent in 2005, as revenue totaled USD393.9 million in 2005. The market accounted for 7.1 per cent of the total security software industry.
An increasing need for customers to meet compliance requirements, as well as a continued need for near-real-time awareness of external and internal threats, is driving the security information and event management (SIEM) market. The SIEM software market grew by more than 29 per cent in 2005 to more than USD281 million.
Compliance is also driving growth in the user provisioning market. This segment grew 19.7 per cent in 2005, with revenue USD753.3 million.
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Taken from Information Security Bulletin.