14 DAY TRIAL // According to Infonetics Research’s DDOS Prevention Appliances study (registration required), the DDOS prevention market is expected to record a significant growth over the next period.
“DDoS prevention appliances are the first line of defense against brute-force attacks like those we saw aimed at U.S. financial institutions last September, and most service providers and large enterprises are investing heavily in them,” noted Jeff Wilson, principal analyst for security at Infonetics Research.
“With the number, size and coverage of DDoS attacks on the rise, we expect revenue for DDoS prevention solutions to grow in the healthy double digits through 2014.”
The study shows that, globally, the DDOS prevention appliance revenue grew by 30% last year, reaching $275 million (€209 million).
Over the upcoming period, the DDOS prevention market for mobile networks is also expected to grow.
“Many vendors are reporting sharp growth in direct sales to enterprises, even though conventional wisdom says that large enterprise customers are looking at cloud-based solutions for DDoS mitigation,” Wilson said.
“There are many enterprise environments where data simply cannot leave privately-owned networks and data centers to be scrubbed in the cloud, mostly for compliance reasons.”
Arbor Networks and Radware are considered market leaders, but the smaller players such as F5 and Fortinet are looking to draw business from them.
In the meantime, more companies enter the market. For instance, the acquisition of Webscreen has allowed Juniper to step into the DDOS market.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the DDOS protection market is expected to grow. According to a report from DDOS protection services provider Prolexic, over the past quarter, DDOS attacks have become more powerful.
The average bandwidth has reached 49.24 Gbps, and the average PPS rate has reached 47.7 Mbps. In addition, in Q2 2013, on average, attacks lasted for 38 hours.