informIT: Software Security Still Growing

[gem at cigital.com (Gary McGraw)]

hi sc-l,

I'm pleased to report that even in the face of global recession, the software security space continues to grow.  The 
space as a whole, tracked through the annual revenue of tools and services vendors, is approaching $500M.

As many of you know, I publish an annual "state of the practice" article with lots of numbers in it.  The 2008 numbers 
were just published this morning:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1338343

For pointers to previous years' data and some discussion of the analysts covering the space (including pointers to the 
Gartner magic quadrant and a report by Forrester), see this Justice League posting:
http://www.cigital.com/justiceleague/2009/04/16/software-security-2008/

If Q1 results from Cigital are any indication, 2009 promises to be yet another record year for software security.

gem

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