Data Center Security Industry Overview
The market is highly fragmented due to players like McAfee Inc., Juniper Networks Inc., Schneider Electric SE, Citrix Systems Inc., and other giants, which play a vital role in upscaling the capabilities of enterprises. Market orientation leads to a highly competitive environment. The biggest retail and wholesale data center market companies have further secured their dominance by acquiring hefty rivals. There has been a wave of consolidation in the secondary markets as smaller players seek to scale to compete.
- February 2021 - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, a provider of cybersecurity solutions globally, extended the capabilities of its unified CloudGuard Cloud Native Security platform. The company launched a new CloudGuard Application Security (AppSec). This enabled the enterprises to secure all cloud-native applications against known and zero-day attacks. It eliminates the need for manual tuning and a high rate of false-positive alerts by using contextual AI to prevent attacks from impacting cloud applications.
- January 2021 - As an Internet of Things (IoT) technology vendor, Ubiquiti, Inc. warned its customers of a data breach caused by unauthorized access to their database. The data exposed included many customer names, email addresses, hashed and salted passwords, addresses, and phone numbers.
Data Center Security Market Leaders
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Symantec Corporation
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VMware Inc.
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Cisco Systems Inc.
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McAfee Inc.
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Citrix Systems Inc.
- *Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order