Analysts report on industry growth and predict future growth.
According to analyst firm
Frost & Sullivan
, the worldwide market for anti-virus solutions reached US$4.68 billion in 2006 – an increase of 17.1% from the previous year. The analysts expect the market to grow at approximately 10.9% compound annual growth rate for the next six years, reaching US$9.69 billion by 2013. The firm cites an increase in end-user awareness of targeted online crimes such as identity theft, loss of enterprise data and extortion, as a driving force behind the growth of the anti-malware market.
Meanwhile, in a more localised round of number crunching and statistics bandying, it has been reported by
Anti-Malware.ru
that the Russian anti-virus software market grew by 49% in 2006, reaching $68.6 million. With a small consumer market thanks to the prevalence of software piracy in the region, the main growth areas were in sales of software to corporate and small to medium-sized business customers.
According to the report,
Kaspersky Lab
retains its place as market leader with a 36.3% share of the Russian market, followed by
Symantec
and
Trend Micro
. The Russian-founded
Doctor Web
sits in fourth place, while
Eset
made it into the region’s top five for the first time in 2006, with a 292% record growth in the region.
Posted on 01 August 2007 by
Virus Bulletin
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