Factory revenue for the Western European security appliance market grew by 0.8% to $399.5m in the first quarter of 2010, compared to the same period last year, according to IDC Western European Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker.
According to the study, the firewall/VPN market represented $75.56m in the first quarter, down 20.2%, compared to the same period last year. Cisco remained the number 1 vendor in the segment, followed by Checkpoint, with Juniper in third place.
UTM represented the largest market of the tracked security appliances, with total revenue of $124.4m in the last quarter, for 14.3% growth over 1Q09. For the first time in two years, Fortinet came second, leaving the top spot to Juniper, with Watchguard taking third place.
According to IDC, the Intrusion prevention appliances (IPS) decreased by 29.7% to $56.7m, the VPN applicance market decreased 16.6% to $47m in the first quarter of 2010.
IPS was the security appliance segment most affected by the recession, one of the reasons being the postponement of security investments. Cisco was market leader, followed by IBM-ISS and McAfee.
Content management appliance revenue was up 42.4% to $92.2m in the first quarter of 2010, compared to the same period last year. In 4Q09 it became the second largest segment behind UTM and now represents 23% of the total market.
Cisco remained the number 1 vendor in the content management appliance segment and the messaging security subcategory. McAfee led the Web security and the Web and messaging (WAM) subcategories.
