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RE: IPS Market Share
From: "Andrew Plato" <andrew.plato () anitian com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 07:36:16 -0700
I wonder if Gartner included IDS in that as well? That would explain ISS's larger size. The Infonetics report I saw is looking at in-line IPS only. Eh, I saw a news story out there that says McAfee has the largest share. I am sure somebody, somewhere did a report that shows Cisco is larger. Everybody is fighting for their slice of the pie. :-) ----------------------------------------------- Andrew Plato, CISSP, CISM President/Principal Consultant Anitian Enterprise Security ----------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Gary Halleen (ghalleen) [mailto:ghalleen () cisco com] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:24 AM To: Andrew Plato; focus-ids () securityfocus com Subject: RE: IPS Market Share It's interesting that different analysts can all come up with different numbers. Here's what I saw from Gartner (May 2006): 1. ISS with 22.2% 2. Cisco with 16.8% 3. 3COM/TippingPoint with 13.9% 4. Network Associates with 12.3% 5. Sourcefire with 8.1% 6. Juniper with 7.1% Gary -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Plato [mailto:andrew.plato () anitian com] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 5:27 PM To: focus-ids () securityfocus com Subject: IPS Market Share Somebody asked a while back about market share and IPSs on this list. I just got a copy of a report from Infonetics Research. In short here is how the top IPSs stack up in market share:
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TippingPoint (3Com) comes out on top; they have an incredibly high percentage of customers running their products not only in line, but running their default recommended settings of over 800 filters (with minor tweaks); they have a 33% share in 2005, nearly double that of their next closest competitor Cisco comes in 2nd overall in 2005 (just barely) with 17% share; we estimate that just over 50% (though rising quickly) of their customers use their products in line with a significant number of filters; Cisco's real strength overall though is in their ability to push IPS technology through a wide variety of devices beside their dedicated IPS products, including integrated security appliances, routers, and switches. Juniper comes in 3rd overall with a 16% share of revenue, but they have a very high percentage of customers actually using their products in-line (second only to TippingPoint) McAfee and ISS round out the 4th and 5th spots with similar numbers; ISS has a strong IDS legacy, and though they've been successful selling IPS, their installed base of happy IDS customers, and their reputation as an IDS supplier hurts them in this study, and McAfee has established themselves as a very strong player for high-performance IDS, but hasn't been as successful moving their customers in line as other vendors in this space. (Source, Infonetics Research, Network IPS Market Outlook Report, May 17, 2006)
This mirrors what I see in the field as well. However, I think Cisco is big simply because of their domination of enterprise network infrastructure. People buy Cisco mostly because of the brand name. There is no mention of Snort or Sourcefire in this analysis. _____________________________________ Andrew Plato, CISSP President / Principal Consultant ANITIAN ENTERPRISE SECURITY Your Expert Partner for Security & Networking 3800 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Suite 280 Beaverton, OR 97005 503-644-5656 Office 503-214-8069 Fax 503-201-0821 Mobile www.anitian.com _____________________________________ PGP/GPG public key available at: http://www.anitian.com/corp/keys.htm _________________________________________________ NOTICE: This email may contain confidential information, and is for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to the message and inform the sender of the error and delete the email and any attachments from your computer. _________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _________________________________________________ NOTICE: This email may contain confidential information, and is for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to the message and inform the sender of the error and delete the email and any attachments from your computer. _________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: RE: IPS Market Share raj_w (Jun 09)
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