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OurVIEW 1 CATALYST 1 SUMMARY 1 METHODOLOGY 1 ANALYSIS 2 Secure content management and identity and access management stand out in importance 2 IDm will be particularly vital to the higher levels of education and larger institutions 3 Secure content management will be the primary concern of in the education of younger students 4 Firewall and VPN solutions will remain important at all levels but particularly for offsite access in HEIs 5 More advanced security solutions will be less popular in education than in other sectors 5 Education will show strong demand for security appliance consolidation 6 Low budgets and lack of trained personnel will help to drive demand for different product combinations 6 Education institutions stand to benefit from three forms of solution consolidation 7 North America will continue to dominate while all regions display strong growth 8 All regions and levels in education will see strong growth 8 Europe will see faster growth in HEIs in contrast to North America 9 Growth in individual applications matches the priorities of the different levels of education 10 IDm will remain the largest segment while security and vulnerability management grows fastest 10 HEIs and primary and secondary institutions will continue to display very different adoption patterns 11 ACTIONS 12 Vendors should market appliances incorporating content filtering to lower education levels 12 Provisioning and other IDm should be offered to HEIs 12 APPENDIX 13 Definitions 13 Extended methodology 14 Further reading 14 Ask the analyst List of Figures Figure 1: Education security purchasing intentions compared with all vertical markets 2 Figure 2: The needs of education institutions will help to drive solution consolidation 7 Figure 3: Education spending on IT security in Europe and North America by region, 2006 to 2010 9 Figure 4: Proportion of education IT security spending by primary and secondary institutions, 2006 to 2010 10 Figure 5: IT security spending in Europe and North America by application, 2006 to 2010 11 Figure 6: Spending on IT security applications by level of institution for 2006 12