Vendor Landscape: Annual Security Roundup

The best solution providers are those that do everything well.

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Your Challenge

The security market is highly consolidated and dominated by a few big names. Customers may have difficulty in determining which vendor to partner with when they all seem to have similar product portfolios.
Just because a vendor claims to have products for a variety of security needs, doesn’t mean its products are the best. Customers must be wary of “jack of all trades, master of none” vendors. They should focus on a product’s capabilities needed in a specific area and base decisions on that rather than choosing a vendor because it offers a lot of products in many different areas.
Also, vendor tie-in is not necessary in security. While a vendor may offer a product in UTM, IDP, and SIEM, it does not mean a customer should stick with the same vendor for all of those products. Customers must look at different vendors for different products and pick and choose, rather than sticking with vendor loyalty.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Customers must be aware that all of the vendors in this evaluation are the best of the best and scored highly in their products’ respective Vendor Landscapes, so they would all be ideal partner choices.
Because they are all well-regarded, it really comes down to your enterprise’s individual security requirements and priorities, whether that is integration with current systems, price, or vendor viability.

Impact and Result

Understand the security market and where it’s going.
Evaluate vendors and products based on your unique requirements.
Determine which vendor and product are appropriate for particular use cases and scenarios.

Get to Action

Evaluate security vendors and available solutions
Understand the security market, the players, and their products.
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Identify the solutions that best fit enterprise needs
Develop a customized shortlist to speed solution selection.
- Annual Security Roundup Vendor Shortlist Tool

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1 Comment

Farrukh Salim - 2012-02-02

The results may comply to the standard client server architecture in a single FW environment. In an environment with more than one GW (Dual Data Center Sites) with load balancers our preference and that of the 30 or more companies I went in and out as a consultant remains Cisco ASA or FWSM. The IPS solution was dominated by Cisco IPS/IDS or the integrated SSM-10 ASA module which would also provide the Trend Micro anti virus package. This solution in extension with the vShield on ESX5 looks more like the way to go. Saying that, diversity on the Firewall and IPS side is or should be a must.

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