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The enterprise security market in India is expected to touch $234 million in 2014, growing at 16 percent, driven by new business paradigms such as social, mobility, analytics and cloud computing.

According to McAfee, the enterprise security market in India is expected to touch $234 million in 2014, growing at about 16 percent, compared to 2013.
New technologies such as advanced persistent threats (APTs); data loss prevention (DLP); security information and event management—governance, risk and compliance (SIEM-GRC); and next generation firewalls (NGFW) are driving most of the security spends in the enterprise as well as SMB markets.
Advanced persistent threats
According to a recent report on APTs, government agencies and organizations in industries such as finance, energy, IT, aerospace, chemicals and pharmaceuticals are mostly likely to be the victims of APT infections as are those involved in international trade. Any organization running industrial control systems linked to the Internet is at risk, the report cautions.

Another report from Symantec reveals that attackers are focusing on large enterprises. Amitabh Jacob, Director, Channels & Alliances, India & Saarc, Symantec, says that the security threat landscape for SMBs is no different. “SMBs face the highest phishing and virus-bearing email, almost three times as much as enterprise targets.”
A new trend, according to Jagdish Mahapatra, Managing Director, McAfee (Intel Security) India & Saarc, is advanced evasion techniques (AETs) which hackers use to bypass security systems and penetrate even the most locked-down networks. AETs work by splitting malicious payloads into smaller pieces, disguising, and sending them across multiple protocols. Once inside, they reassemble to unleash malware.
“The security landscape is so threatening that no business can afford to rely on legacy systems, hence we are witnessing demand from customers across verticals. We have bagged five large customers in 2014 with project sizes of Rs 15 lakh- Rs 20 lakh,” informs Uttam Majumdar, President, Locuz Enterprise Solutions, Hyderabad.
Data leak prevention
Enterprises are looking at DLP as a solution to increase organizational awareness and monitor their data flow due to tight regulatory environments in the form of improvements to the IT Act 2000 and the RBI Information Systems Audit Policy.
Shalil Gupta, Director, Consulting & Insights, IDC India, feels that DLP will be the next big opportunity led by banking, telecom, IT-ITeS and customer-centric verticals, in the next six months.
“Overworked and understaffed, security teams are stitching together good enough security products which were originally not designed to work together,” explains Jacob. “Not only does this make an organization more vulnerable to breaches, it also increases operational complexity. Enterprises are therefore opting for DLP systems that give greater control over confidential data and simplify the management process. According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant, this adoption was estimated to have grown to $670 million globally in 2013 from $535 million in 2012.”
Says Ajit Zanjad, AVP, Professional Services Group of Delhi-based Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic (HSMC), “We expect DLP adoption to grow by at least 20-25 percent YoY keeping in view the growing awareness among customers.” He adds that so far security vendors have been performing free audits for organizations, and, based on the findings, bagging deals. “Similarly, a partner should go and talk to the top management. Start the conversation with new trends such as SSL espionage, data leakage and theft—and the implications of each.”
While HSMC has already got more than 25 customers on DLP, it recently acquired three more customers with project sizes ranging from Rs 30 lakh to Rs 1 crore.

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