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World Network Access Control Products Market
Frost & Sullivan, Sep 2009, Pages: 134
Vendors in the World Network Access Control Products Market Roll out Appropriate Strategies to Tackle Harsh Economic Scenario
Compliance requirements with government and industry regulations have been largely responsible for growth in the world NAC products market. Enterprise customers are obliged to conform to regulations regardless of the prevailing economic predicament. As a result, customers have been investing in network security solutions such as NAC, which is a very preemptive security solution that blocks users and machines that could possibly be a source for an attack against the corporate network. 'By enforcing policies and protecting the network from compromised endpoints, NAC has been recognized as an effective tool for enterprise customers,' notes the analyst of this research service. 'However, this preemptive approach also represents a challenge for market progression as enterprise customers are still overly focused on solutions that prevent direct attacks such as firewalls, intrusion detection system/ intrusion prevention system (IDS/IPS), and anti-malware.'
The NAC market has been surrounded by controversy and the technology has had to evolve in tandem with shifting customer expectations and demands. Customers and channel partners opine that the technology must reach a greater level of maturity. NAC architectures are expected to attain a stronger value proposition as customers gradually upgrade infrastructure and networks become NAC ready. Apart from growing customer skepticism, the recession has stunted market growth. Enterprise customers have reduced spending due to the tough economic conditions. While the security industry remained strong, customers were more picky about what solutions they chose to implement. This weakened growth phase has resulted in consolidation in the market space, and several point-solution vendors have exited the market. Overall, this will be a positive long-term factor. This natural selection process will eliminate weaker solutions and ultimately result in less customer confusion.
As far as NAC sales are concerned, the Asia Pacific region is led by technologically developed countries such as Japan and Australia. NAC sales are also bolstered by the newly industrialized countries such as China and India. NAC market penetration had been slow initially owing to the lack of vendor sales presence in these countries. 'Large multinational network equipment and security vendors were the first to report traction in these regions primarily because they were adequately represented,' observes the analyst. 'Vendors without a direct sales presence must build channel partnerships that will allow them to penetrate this region.'
Vendors are exploring various tactics to stimulate interest in NAC, and one of the strategies adopted is offering NAC as a managed service. Though this is logical in many ways, NAC is very complicated and may prove to be more difficult to manage compared to other security solutions. Vendors have found some success by selling point products such as guest/contractor services or device profiling solutions. To improve their prospects in this arena, NAC vendors must implement new services and features to make these solutions more plausible in terms of affordability and ease-of-use. Large enterprise customers in the financial market need NAC solutions that are complete in every sense. Offering multiple types of detection/enforcement allows the customers to identify the level of security that they need. By deploying both an agent-based and agentless assessment, customers can utilize the most appropriate method for various case scenarios. In addition, multiple strong enforcement and quarantine capabilities are a must and customers in the financial market should be provided with guest networking capabilities.
Market Sectors
Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:
By End-user Vertical:
- Education
- Financial
- Government
- Healthcare
- Others (Manufacturing, Transportation, Media, Tech & Telecom)
This Frost & Sullivan research service titled World Network Access Control Products Market provides market sizing, forecasts, market shares, and emerging trends. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the network access control (NAC) appliances and architecture solutions.
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