This IDC study provides a top-down sizing of the security and vulnerability management (SVM) software market, which incorporates the security management and vulnerability assessment software markets. The study covers CY07 for the market sizing and forecasts the market for the period 2008–2012. Specific vendor revenue and market shares are included in this study.

"As organizations continue to expand, the number and type of security products they use, it becomes more difficult to know if those products are providing the right type of risk mitigation," says Charles Kolodgy, research director for Security Products. "Security and vulnerability management tools can be used to make "security smart" by discovering hard-to-find threats, supplementing security controls with policy, and automatically remediation of security problems."