IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide Taxonomy

Figure: IDC's Standard Industries

Security Spending Guide Taxonomy Changes for 2022 Release V2

Taxonomy Overview

Definitions

What Is a Vertical Industry?

Economic Entities, Enterprises, and Establishments

IDC's Sector View and Associated Primary Vertical Markets

What Is a Sector?

Table: IDC's Worldwide Sector and Industry Taxonomy

IDC's Company Size Taxonomy

Employee Count

IDC's Standard Company Size Segmentation

Note on Consumer Industry and Consumer Endpoint Security Software

Technology Taxonomy

Security Products

Table: IDC's Security Spending Guide Technology Taxonomy

Hardware

Information and Data Security Appliances

Messaging Security Appliances

Network Security Appliances

Firewall

VPN

IDP

Unified Threat Management

Secure Web Gateway

Software

Cybersecurity Analytics, Intelligence, Response, and Orchestration

Security Information and Event Management

Tier 2 SOC Analytics and Cloud-Native XDR

Device Vulnerability Assessment

Software Vulnerability Assessment

Endpoint Security Software

Consumer/SOHO

Modern Endpoint

Server Security

GRC and Forensics

eDiscovery and Forensics Applications

Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software

Identity and Digital Trust Software

Identity Management

Legacy Identity

Authentication

Privileged Access Management

Information and Data Security Software

Data Security

Messaging Security Software

Sensitive Data Management and Data Privacy

Network Security Software

Secure Access and Segmentation

Zero Trust Edge

Active Application Security

Services

Consulting Services

Business Consulting

Custom Application Development

IT Consulting

Integration Services

Network Consulting and Integration

Systems Integration

IT Education and Training

IT Education and Training

Managed Security Services

Application Management

Hosted Application Management

Hosting Infrastructure Services

IT Outsourcing

Key Horizontal BPO

Network and Endpoint Outsourcing Services

Support Security Services

Hardware Deploy and Support

Software Deploy and Support

Geography Taxonomy

Table: IDC's Worldwide Geographic Coverage

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Methodology

Note on Alignment with Other IDC Security Products Forecasts

Overlap with Other IDC Spending Guide Research

Exchange Rates

Related Research

Synopsis