Gartner: Strong divergence of cloud security growth still exists

According to Gartner, the 2013 market for cloud-based Security services will reach $2.1 billion trillion and will grow to $3.1 billion by 2015. Gartner says Cloud security will keep growing strongly, but revenue opportunities will vary.

Ruggero Contu, Gartner research director, said: "The cloud security market is still a viable market for providers to offer many opportunities for expansion." Encryption will be a new growth area, but it is still more complex. There is a strong interest in cryptographic products from Yunan companies because they are relatively easy to deploy and have the option of preset (specific) cryptographic management. ”

Gartner predicts that the most sought-after cloud services in the future will remain e-mail security, network security services, identity and access Management (IAM). However, in 2013 and 2014, the strongest growth is expected to occur in cloud-based feature tagging and encryption, security information and event Management (SIEM), vulnerability assessment, and network application firewalls.

Kelly Kavanagh, chief research analyst at Gartner, said: "The growth potential is greatest in areas like Siem and IAM, although this is only a small group for Siem." The benefits of cloud security-especially encryption-make it more and more popular. However, trust concerns and regional changes mean that providers have to carefully assess each market opportunity before deciding what to focus on. ”

The overall adoption of software as a service (SaaS) application and other cloud services has led to the adoption of cloud-based security controls by enterprise organizations. These are provided to customers as stand-alone feature features or as part of an integrated SaaS package. The Management Security Service (MSS) also drives the adoption of cloud security services in the enterprise. In turn, the MSS delivery model is being impacted by the demand for cloud security services, which enables security providers to become de facto MSS vendors.

"The benefits of deploying cloud security services are obvious," says Kavanagh. In addition to a wide range of IAM coverage, such as encryption and other specific controls, is becoming a key element in cloud computing. These all contribute to stimulating interest in the delivery of this particular form of security service. ”

Gartner expects increased acceptance and reliance on cloud security as a service product, as well as more experience from enterprise organizations on trends in SaaS and BYOD that lead to more and more consumer-level technology in enterprise systems.

The growth of cloud security services in 2012 will exceed the remote monitoring client device (CPE) MSS Market, but the base is small. Over the next 24 months, large it and network service providers will launch new security-service offerings for cloud IT resources to address specific security-control issues, targeting small or midsize enterprises (SMB). Gartner predicts that the launch of this service will impact the smaller, provider-only providers of management security Services (MSSP) and facilitate their integration.

In the IAM sector, SMEs need to extend their basic IAM capabilities to provide services to employees who access SaaS and internal network architecture applications, which has largely stimulated the interest in cloud security. An increasing number of enterprise organizations seem to be adopting cloud based IAM services to replace the IAM preset tools. The larger enterprises often use the IAM as a mixture of traditional architecture and network architecture cloud and preset architectures.

Contu said: "While corporate institutions are increasingly interested in cryptography, service providers are interested in cloud-based cryptography, which means that the cloud encryption market is still more complex, requiring enterprise organizations to start complex, own-built deployments." The market is most interested in cryptographic products from Yunan companies because these products are relatively easy to deploy and have options for preset encryption management. Nevertheless, Gartner expects cloud hosting providers and IaaS providers to increase their interest in cloud encryption. ”

Considering the differences in maturity, price acceptance and local IT infrastructure, there are considerable differences in the deployment rate of cloud security systems in different regions. The maturity of the relevant business community, local regulations, and price is influenced by the level of investment dedicated to this delivery model, compared with the preset deployment. Privacy continues to be an important impediment to all cloud service patterns, especially in regions and countries where strong regulatory requirements are enforced (for example, in Europe, with its own data protection legislation).