IDC's Security Products with Vertical Views service highlights the increasing unity between previously dissimilar security disciplines. Security software and hardware markets continue to evolve as corporations provide employees and customers with increased access to both internal and external content. In addition to encompassing all the research within IDC's Security Products service, this service provides additional forecasts that segment the market opportunity by 18 industries and four different company sizes, and also provides analysis of end-user spending trends and priorities for the security products market. The following is a comprehensive overview of the industry-specific research elements addressed by the vertical views portion of this service.

• Vulnerability and security management
• Identity and access management
• Threat management, including firewall, virtual private network (VPN), and IDS/IPS
• United threat appliances
• Secure content management (SCM)
• Customer spending trends and priorities based on four company size segments and 18 industries: banking, insurance, securities and investment services, discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, retail, wholesale, government, healthcare providers, education, professional services, consumer and recreational services, communications and media, transportation, utilities, construction, home business and consumer, and resources

• Integration of intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, and firewall technologies into threat management solutions
• Migration of threat management vendors to appliances
• Rise of security management to include vulnerability management and event management
• Evolution of security appliances into independent platforms for third-party security applications
• Secure content management's unification of antivirus, firewall, secure messaging, Web filtering, antispam, antispyware, and antiphishing
• Emerging threat environment and key players
• Market share of leading vendors by industry

1. What is the market share of leading security vendors by industry?
2. What is the market opportunity for security software vendors versus hardware vendors? How do opportunities vary by industry and company size?
3. What are the key requirements to gaining market share in the security market? How do these requirements vary by industry?
4. What are the key pain points, spending trends, priorities, and technology needs in different industry sectors?

IDC's Security Products with Vertical Views service keeps product, marketing, and strategic planning professionals informed on the market leaders and key market opportunities within the security products market. The service also arms vendors with a measurement of the IT dollar opportunities within this environment and provides market segmentation and predictions that act as a guiding system for initiating rational and optimal sales and marketing decisions and strategies. IDC's insights lead to credible, unique, viable, and defensible market positioning and support the identification and prioritization of market efforts as well as successful entry, strategies, and tactics.

This service focuses on the following core research. In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct additional research on specific topics, or emerging market segments, via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

This document presents IDC's viewpoint on 18 industries for 2009. Additionally, it includes a discussion of industry events of 2008, as well as predictions for 2009 and their impact on spending and IT priorities.

These documents provide ongoing forecasts and analyses by industry and company size segmentation for the major security markets, including firewalls and VPNs, secure content management, intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment, and identity and access management.

This document analyzes survey results from 4,500 end users in the United States. It homes in on key findings as they relate to variations in responses by industry and company size. This annual survey also details the industry forces driving the adoption of security technologies, budgets, and the use and demand of security solutions. Analysis and resulting recommendations are made based on survey results.

This study evaluates the leading vendors of security software solutions in key vertical markets by providing revenue information segmented by industry.

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