Appliance Deployment Featured Article

China’s IT security appliance market will reach $1.56 billion by 2017, according to IDC’s (News - Alert) China IT Security Appliance 2013-2017 Forecast and Analysis, growing at a compound growth rate of 13.5 percent. Figures in the report indicate consistent, strong demand for IT security appliances in China, and predict further development in the coming months.

The research firm expects China’s IT security appliance market to grow by 14.7 percent to $950 million this year alone. The market had increased by 13.9 percent to $830 million in 2012.

The Firewall/VPN appliance market captured 34.1 percent of the market in the second half of 2012. The Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliance market and the Security Content Management appliance market also received good performance ratings by IDC.

While the UTM appliance market is predicted to grow by 23.4 percent to $250 million, the security content management appliance market will grow by 25 percentto $120 million in 2013.

The report notes that the Chinese government, telecoms and financial services are the three biggest purchasers in China’s IT security appliance market, together accounting for 58 percent of the combined share.

“Compared with the first half of 2012, the government’s share of investments has increased, and telecoms’ share remains similar,” said Pei Wang, research manager, IT Security Market Research, IDC China. “Affected by the overall economic environment, the shares of finance and manufacturing are decreased by a small margin.”

According to  IDC, the changing security landscape has led to the failure of traditional security products, as they are no longer able to address the modern security threats. This has led to the demand of perceptive recognition technology-driven security products, which are replacing border security products in China.