Network Security

The pace of cybersecurity evolution accelerated over the past decade. What was once perceived as a box-ticking exercise became a business enabler. The main driver for this paradigm shift is the massive increase in the number and severity of cyberattacks on organizations, including small and medium-sized businesses. Typically, point cybersecurit...

This Frost & Sullivan report analyzes the global secure web gateway (SWG) market. Web-borne threats are second to email as the major threat vector for cyberattacks. It is the hacker’s favorite for command and control. More organizations are conducting business online and web access has become a critical component. There has been a drastic inc...

Ransomware has evolved into a top security concern for organizations, and the escalating number of attacks have validated the harmful impact this type of malware can cause across numerous sectors and industries. Cyber-attacks involving ransomware were originally viewed as a novelty that creative criminals came up with, but this type of malware atta...

At the end of 2020, FireEye discovered malware distributed through software updates to the Orion Platform, a popular IT management product. SolarWinds, the platform supplier, was breached earlier that year and failed to detect hackers in its environment for several months. Because of the widespread usage of the SolarWinds software, victims of this ...

The concept of Security by Isolation aims to reduce the impact of cyberattacks by physically separating a user's system, OS, browser, or email from their local machine or the enterprise server. As a result, even if the security of one of the systems is compromised, the impact does not percolate to the rest of the infrastructure. The principle o...

The Asia-Pacific web application firewall (WAF) solutions market experienced growth at a healthy 22.4% year-over-year rate in 2019 driven by high adoption from both the on-premises and cloud-based deployment segments. Particularly for cloud-based deployment, the rapid growth of this segment will lead it to achieve parity with the on-premises segmen...

The Asia-Pacific distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) solutions market experienced double-digit growth in both on-premises and cloud-based solutions segments in 2020. The market growth was largely driven by the relentless rise in DDoS attacks throughout the region. In addition to acts committed for financial gain, simmering geopolitical tensions ha...

As part of Frost & Sullivan’s ongoing research on Cybersecurity, we conducted a deep-dive into the Global DDoS Mitigation market. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), among the most common hacker attacks, overwhelms network hosts with invalid requests from 'distributed’ sources, leading to legitimate requests being lost or ignored in the ensui...

Business operations and consumer engagements are rapidly moving to an environment that is permanently online and permanently connected. End consumers demand a user experience that enables them to switch between multiple applications and devices seamlessly. However, a seamless customer experience across numerous applications requires an open net...