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Slicing The Security Pie
Cisco is #1 in appliance sales
Network World published an interesting story about Cisco’s attempts to keep the number 1 spot in sales of network security gear. (note that I emphasise the words sales).
The article includes several security pies, the kind I like. it also include an analysis of best of breed versus good enough sales.
In my opinion the article is missing one important factors: The departure of Nokia from the network security appliance market.
Cisco is indeed the undisputed leader in sales for the security appliances market. It’s retired PIX firewall was all times best seller. People simply liked the way it worked. The more recent acquisition of IronPort gave it a powerful weapon in the e-mail security market and it also allows Cisco to claim some DLP capabilities. Cisco is also #1 in sales of IPS gear. Take a look at the left pie. While there’s a huge market share belongs to the “other” vendors, Cisco’s slice is bigger than the combined slices of Juniper, Check Point, Nokia and Microsoft!
The other pies show how Cisco rules the network security market (again, in sales). While the article does not mention emerging market it focus on the main.
The Security Pie