This IDC study provides a top-down sizing of the information protection and control (IPC) market in 2006 and a 2007–2011 forecast for this market. This study also includes profiles of leading IPC vendors and identifies the characteristics that vendors will need to be successful in the future.

"IDC believes that information protection and control will be a major area of investment over the next five years" said Brian Burke, research manager for IDC's Security Products program. "Information has become the world's new currency. The growing number of high-profile incidents in which customer records, confidential information, and intellectual property were leaked (or lost/stolen) has created an explosive demand for solutions that protect against the deliberate or inadvertent release of sensitive information."