Earlier in the week we saw that the market for Secure Email Gateways (SEG) is a mature one with low digit growth expected annually over the coming years. We also saw that it is characterized by a move towards SaaS models with most vendors providing some kind of service offering. It is also dominated by five big vendors that have been in the market since the beginning.
The findings?places Cisco, McAfee, Microsoft, Proofpoint and Symantec in the Leader?s quadrant of a Magic Quadrant that consists of 16 vendors in all.
SEG Vendors
But they are not the only vendors that should be considered and Gartner makes the point that potential investors should consider the market globally before making any decision.
The market, Gartner says, is in a constant state of flux that reflects its maturity and has seen, for example, the inclusion of SilverSky this year, while Google was dropped.
This movement is not because of any flaws detected in the products in the 12 months since the last quadrant, but rather because of changes in the vendor outlook which means it no longer fits into the strict criteria that Gartner has drawn up for inclusion in this quadrant.
Google is a case in point. It was dropped this year, because it has withdrawn from the stand-alone SEG market and has migrated its remaining customers in this market to a version of enterprise Gmail, all of who will continue to benefit from SEG services, but this time integrated into the email application itself.
There are also other vendors that didn?t make it into the MQ but which provide strong SEG offerings all the same. In the case of Sendmail, for example, you have a vendor with a very strong, large enterprise offering that does not fit in with Gartner?s technology criteria.
Sendmail has a rather unique product that enables enterprises to plug in the email security applications that they want from other vendors and manage the overall framework once the enterprise has built the security presence it wants using those third-party components collectively.
Other vendors like AppRiver, Axway, Eleven and Spamina focus on a particular geographic or vertical market niche, Gartner says.
SEG MQ Criteria
So what are the criteria for inclusion? To be included in the MQ in the first place, vendors must demonstrate:
- That their solution has its own proprietary capabilities to block unwanted email traffic.
- Email virus scanning
- That their product can provide email encryption on its own, or through third-party add-ons
- The ability to scan outbound email for data breaches
- That is has at least 2000 direct enterprise customers and revenues of at least US$ 10 million for email security products.
On top of that they must also show that thteir business is a viable business now and is likely to be in the future as well as an understanding and vision of the market that will carry it through the next year.
SEG Leader's Quadrant
To be included in the Leader?s Quadrant is tougher again. Vendors must show that they are performing well and have a clear forward-looking strategy that includes building new functionality to carry that strategy through. They also must be able to demonstrate comprehensive email security that gives them a high market share coupled with high customer satisfaction. This year the Leaders include:
Cisco
At the moment, Cisco dominates the market for on-premises solutions suitable for the mid-to-large enterprise sector. It offers three different deployment options through hardware appliances, managed appliances and virtual appliances. Suitable for companies that are looking for best-of-breed functionality.
Strengths:?It is easy to scale and operates from an easy-to-use interface that manages a system offering deep policy control. It scans suspicious URLs through its Outbreak Filters and has also added capabilities to detect low-volume spam attacks.
It ?has policy-based email encryption and integrates easily with RSA?s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) manager. It also benefits from Cisco?s installed base of network security appliances.
Cautions:?Its focus on large enterprises means it doesn?t scale down well for SMBs while the management interface can be confusing for inexperienced users. Its hosted email services only has four data centers in the US and Europe and clients are unable to select where their data should reside. Key management is only available from a US data center.
McAfee
Now a subsidiary of Intel, McAfee has a wide range of endpoint security products. It consolidated its two on-premises gateway solutions in v7.0 recently. It is a good choice for integrated hybrid solutions that augments the security of mailboxes, ?and for those looking for an integrated suite of security products.
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Useful article?Tags: cisco, cloud computing, eim, email, email management, gartner, information management, mcafee, microsoft, proofpoint, saas, security, symantec
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