Security is one of the key strategic tasks managed by IT departments in Western Europe. Defending against IT threats, protecting IT assets, monitoring and managing compliance status, protecting information against leakage, and enabling business partnerships and ubiquity for employees are some of the tasks that IT security executives must fulfill. In 2012 we are breaking out the SCTM market into its separate subfunctional markets (endpoint, messaging, Web, and networks), and will produce vendor market share research for Western Europe. IDC's European Security Software Market Analysis and Strategies service closely follows security market spending, strategies, and trends for security software in Western Europe.

• Security software: identity and access management (IAM), secure compliance and vulnerability management (SCVM), secure content and threat management (SCTM), and other security software (encryption, wireless)
• Cloud security: market inhibition, adoption drivers
• Mobile security (new from 2012)
• End-user security spending expectations
• Market opportunity and growth trends, security strategies, competitive environment, and recommendations for vendors and end users
• CISO agendas
• Point solutions survey

• Market analysis and competitive analysis studies
• Western European security software market shares
• Western European Security Software Forecast, 2013–2017
• Western European Mobile Security Forecast, 2013–2017
• Western European Security Software Vendor Shares, Country Level, 2013
• Vendor profiles
• IDC presentations

In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct research on specific topics or emerging market segments via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment. European Security Software Market Analysis and Strategies.

1. What are the major issues relating to IT security that companies face today and in the future?
2. Which industries and company size bands are the critical focal points for vendors in the coming year?
3. How are the top vendors positioned in terms of company and product strategies and market share?
4. How are market ecosystems changing?
5. How are regulatory and compliance changes affecting market growth?
6. How are vendors addressing the management of security implementations
7. What impact will the trends of social, cloud, Big Data, and mobile have on the security landscape?

IDC's European Security Software Market Analysis and Strategies service examines how security vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the software market. This service reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of providers in the European security products and strategies market, including:

Attachmate, BitDefender, BeCrypt, BitLocker, CA Technologies, Check Point, Cisco, EMC (RSA Security), Enterasys, F-Secure, Gemalto, Groupe Bull, HP, IBM, Iron Port (Cisco), Juniper, Kaspersky Labs, Lumension, McAfee, MessageLabs (Symantec), Microsoft, Norman ASA, Novell, Oracle, Panda Security, PGP (Symantec), Postini (Google), Qualys, Scan Safe (Cisco), Sophos, SSH, Shavlik, Symantec, Trend Micro, Sophos-Utimaco, Vasco, VeriSign (Symantec), Vericept, Websense, and Zscaler.

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