IDC's supply-side surveys continue to highlight the criticality of advanced security deployments, changes, and trends in any IT investment budgets. As a result, the market has become increasingly competitive with many new local players, as well as upcoming and niche specialist vendors, entering into the space to challenge the incumbent global players. IDC's Asia/Pacific Semiannual Security Software Tracker® provides the latest market trends and analyzes new opportunities across the region with country breakdown. It also discusses the success elements of leading players and offers both practical and strategic recommendations from marketing and technology perspective. This product provides insight to enhance product resilience and discover new market opportunity.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendors' market share for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurement for this tracker is in software revenue, which IDC defines as software license, maintenance, and other software revenue such as subscription revenue.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Endpoint security
• Identity and access management
• Messaging security
• Network security
• Security and vulnerability management
• Other security software
• Web security

Segmentations:

• Channels: Direct, SI, VAR/VAD, and others
• Company size by employee size: Large (>500), medium large (250–499), medium sized (100–249), and small business (10–99)
• Vertical markets: Banking, insurance, financial markets, discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, communications and media, retail/wholesale, travel and transportation, government, education, and others

Geographic Scope

• Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan): Australia, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, PRC, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts in this tracker are updated semiannually and include three semiannual periods of historical data, two semiannual periods of forecast, and an additional five years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the regional and country levels. The trend can address the following issues that are critical to your success:

• Market trends by demand
• Industry trends
• Country trends
• Key market drivers
• New market dynamics and opportunities
• Forecast outlook

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a semiannual basis with tools such as pivot tables. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• April–May
• October–November