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CA Named Top Security and Vulnerability Management Software Vendor
Computer Associates International, Inc. announced that it has been named the worldwide market leader in Security and Vulnerability Management (SVM) software for 2003 by IDC with a 7.8 percent worldwide market share and revenues exceeding $94 million.
IDC projects worldwide revenue for the SVM software market to reach $3.04 billion in 2008, representing a compound annual growth rate of 20 percent, according to its report entitled "Worldwide Security and Vulnerability Management 2004 -- 2008 Forecast and 2003 Vendor Shares: The Death of Security 3A, Part II."
This was the first year that IDC split the classic "3A's" (Administration, Authorization and Authentication) market -- a market that CA had led for the last three years -- into two components, Security and Vulnerability Management and Identity and Access Management (IAM). CA continued to lead both of these individual markets this year. An IDC report issued earlier this month said that CA was the worldwide market leader in IAM software for 2003 with a 15 percent market share and revenues exceeding $300 million.
"IDC's report confirms that CA has effectively leveraged its global market leadership in IAM security to become the world's leading provider of security and vulnerability management solutions," said Toby Weiss, senior vice president of eTrust security management at CA. "Our eTrust solutions deliver unmatched functionality, value and interoperability for enterprise customers under increasing pressure to protect their critical computing infrastructure from a growing range and volume of attacks."
IDC's Security and Vulnerability Management market includes event correlation, log aggregation, consolidated consoles, vulnerability management, patch management, policy management and enforcement, and forensics. According to IDC, critical drivers of the security and vulnerability management market include integration of security with current system and network management systems, assurance of high uptime for network and applications, administrative cost reductions, and a singular view of the IT environment worldwide.
CA's eTrust security and vulnerability management solutions automate discovery and remediation of potential vulnerabilities, as well as facilitate analysis of real-time and historical events. They therefore enable IT organizations to more proactively protect the enterprise, while reducing the time and effort required to implement security best practices. Specific eTrust security management solutions in this market include:
* eTrust Security Command Center -- for discovering and prioritizing relevant security data to effectively manage security risks in real time through a centralized command and control center.
* eTrust Vulnerability Manager -- for safeguarding IT infrastructures from known vulnerabilities that threaten the integrity of the enterprise.
* eTrust Network Forensics -- for identifying how business assets are affected by network exploits, internal data theft, and security or human resource policy violations.
* eTrust Audit -- for collecting security and system audit data and filtering collected information for consolidated viewing and reporting.
* eTrust Policy Compliance -- for assessing risk and identifying weaknesses in security policy implementation.
* eTrust 20/20 -- for monitoring physical and IT security to quickly and automatically detect suspicious behaviors and to establish accountability in case of a security incident.
"Increasingly, customers want to simplify the complexity associated with monitoring and managing multiple security solutions, while at the same time increasing the effectiveness of protection," said Brian Burke, research manager for IDC's Security Products program. "Security and vulnerability solutions that manage multiple security technologies from a single console and bring together event records, efficiently prioritize incidents, provide patching and remediation, and separate real security violations from false alarms will be attractive solutions in organizations of all sizes." 02.12.2004, Computer Associates International, Inc.
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