Market Share Information from IDC
Not so long ago, Brian Burke from IDC released the world Wide Web Security market analysis for 2008 including predictions and current vendor share.
According to IDC, the IDC Web Security market includes URL filtering, Web antimalware, Web application firewall, and Web content filtering products. Web security products are deployed on software, appliance, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. Web security products protect against both inbound (malware) threats and outbound (data leakage) threats.
I liked this report because it shows how Web Application firewalls (WAF) are related to the Web Security Market yet separated, establishing a stand-alone market. I also liked the risk approach to web security in the Web 2.0 era:
Organizations need to balance the business value of Web 2.0 technologies with the risks and security implications of many nonsecure and uncontrolled Web 2.0 environments The advances in Web 2.0 technologies require a new generation of Web security tools that go well beyond traditional URL filtering.
According to IDC 2008 market share analysis, Imperva is listed high among the large behemoth vendors. Imperva was ranked 3rd in market share for web application security appliances, second only to McAfee and Blue Coat. Imperva is the largest WAF vendor with most market share (software or appliances) and our WAF market share is actually bigger than the combined share of our competitors.
