This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mimeat_private for more info. --------------458B6965BCA6C2D6782FBA5A Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.990406163002.16810Eat_private> Forwarded From: darek milewski <darekmat_private> http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990330.ensecurity.htm IDC: Internet security market grows by $1 billion By Juan Carlos Perez InfoWorld Electric Posted at 11:22 AM PT, Mar 30, 1999 Security threats continue to increase as more companies provide external access to their internal systems via the Internet for things such as Internet commerce, prompting many companies to increase spending on Internet security software, according to a new study. The worldwide market for Internet security software grew from $2 billion in 1997 to an estimated $3.1 billion in 1998, according to a study released Tuesday by market research company International Data Corp. (IDC), in Framingham, Mass. The market for Internet security software is expected to reach $4.2 billion worldwide in 1999, and to grow to $7.4 billion in 2002, according to IDC, which based the study on a survey of 300 companies with more than $100 million in annual revenues. In general, the Internet software security market is expected to post a compound annual growth rate in terms of revenues of about 30 percent between now and 2002, IDC said. The firewall segment of the market is expected to have the fastest growth, with an estimated 40 percent compound annual growth between now and 2002, IDC said. Anti-virus software will be the largest segment of this market in 2002, when it will account for almost half -- $3 billion -- of the worldwide revenues from Internet security software, IDC said. Survey respondents suffer an average of 81 viral infections in a 12-month period, a situation that affects just more than 12 percent of their workforce. Other segments of this market, as defined by IDC, are encryption software and software for authorization, authentication, and administration. International Data Corp., in Framingham, Mass., can be reached at www.idc.com . Juan Carlos Perez is the Latin America bureau chief for the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. -- --------------458B6965BCA6C2D6782FBA5A-- -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Hacker News Network [www.hackernews.com]
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