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2012 Information Security Forecasts – Who Will be the Winners & Losers?
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM EST

Replay Link: 2012 Information Security Forecasts

Some of the key trends we will be discussing from our Information Security study are:

Information Security spend is strong with many diverse drivers:

• Directionally for 2012, Information Security Professionals are not planning a slowdown. Thirty-seven percent are planning an increase in spend, with 16% planning a decrease.
• Thirty-nine percent are spending more in 2011 vs. 2010, and only 15% are spending less – showing the resiliency of the market in challenging economic times.
• In the one-on-one interviews, decision-makers detailed compliance, mobile devices and preventing data loss as the drivers for spending increases.

Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) and Application-Aware Firewalls are products on
the move:

• Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) resides in the top spot of TheInfoPro’s proprietary Information Security Technology Heat Index™, which gauges immediacy of planned implementation for 40 technologies, as the G2000 look to protect custodial and intellectual property data from leaking out of their environment.
• The traditional antivirus vendors, Symantec (SYMC) and Intel’s (INTC) McAfee, look to benefit with rollouts of both endpoint and network DLP on tap.
• Application-Aware Firewalls make a nice jump in the Heat Index, with Palo Alto and Check Point (CHKP) benefiting from the 28% of in-plan implementations.
• Palo Alto will be a vendor to watch as it is beginning to replace some of the major incumbent providers with its application-visibility-based approach.

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Written by Daniel Kennedy, Research Director for Information Security

Far and away, the choice of both large and midsize enterprises for the most exciting vendor this wave in terms of products and services was next generation firewall maker Palo Alto Networks. The application-aware firewall or next generation firewall, a fusion of the capabilities of stateful and application firewalls, is generating a good buzz amongst respondents: “Palo Alto’s probably the most innovative I’ve dealt with, specifically their application discovery or app[lication] identity.”

The second most exciting vendor in aggregate (full sample) is FireEye with its advanced malware detection solutions, buoyed strongly by responses amongst midsize enterprises. Rounding out the list of exciting vendors are industry stalwarts EMC (RSA), Symantec, and Intel (McAfee).

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The application-aware firewalls also lead the network security pack with a heat score of 62, and a 28% in use figure that could jump 33% based if pilots and near-term plans come to fruition. Of the respondents with application-aware firewalls on their roadmaps, 39% of respondents see their organizations spending more in 2012, with Palo Alto Networks seeing the lion’s share of the benefit. If the company can convert on long-term implementation plans by respondents’ enterprises, it could carve out a healthy niche of a firewall market currently dominated by Cisco and Check Point in our studies.

Anti-botnet solutions have had a warmer reception amongst the midsize enterprises, while 14% have a solution in place, another 14% have an implementation in their plans down the road, with FireEye looking to benefit. Still, the technology appears not ready for prime time, with 73% of midsized enterprises reporting no plans for integrating these products.

What do respondents have to say on the top two exciting vendors?

• “Palo Alto – I like their mobile solutions.”
• “We’ve looked at FireEye and haven’t formed any opinion about whether to move forward.”
• “Palo Alto – next generation, not tied to traditional monitoring, but threat ID allows you to make rules more granular.”
• “We are very impressed with FireEye’s approach. In that space, other vendors will catch up.”
• “[Palo Alto does] a single pass instead of Fortinet’s multiple proxy, which hammers the resources and doesn’t give enough granularity in reporting. It’s a more cohesive design.”
• “FireEye’s virtual machine-based detection system for malware. It anticipates malware and tells you what may likely be malware before you can get signatures out.”

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High Profile Breaches and Mobile Devices are key spending drivers according to a report authored by Daniel Kennedy, former Wall Street Chief Information Security Officer and now Research Director for Information Security at TheInfoPro

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Written by Daniel Kennedy, Research Director for Networking

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