Blue Coat Systems announced that it continued to lead the worldwide content security gateway appliance market for the third calendar quarter of 2009, according to the most recent market share report released by Infonetics Research. Blue Coat increased its market share in the third quarter to 23.8 percent, extending its market leadership for the 11th consecutive quarter.
According to Infonetics, the Content Security Gateway Appliance market is expected to grow from $1.2 billion in 2009 to $1.9 billion in 2013. During that same period, Infonetics projects that the Web/malware appliance segment of the market will grow 60 percent from $650 million to $1.03 billion.
The Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway solution is a hybrid architecture that combines presence at the corporate Web gateway with a collaborative cloud defense and protection for remote users to deliver on-demand security intelligence. By uniting 62 million users in the Blue Coat Web Pulse service, the Blue Coat solution ought to deliver industry-leading Web awareness and extensible defenses that provide seamless protection for customers without patches or updates.
Nidal Taha, Regional Director for ME and Turkey, Blue Coat Systems: “The industry-leading Web awareness and on-demand security intelligence that Blue Coat solutions offer provides enterprises with seamless protection and underscores why we remain the market leader.” (Source: Blue Coat Systems, Inc./GST)