Summary
Major players in the cloud security market are Microsoft Corporation, Cisco Systems Inc., Trend Micro Inc., McAfee Corp., Qualys Inc., Amazon Web Services Inc., Broadcom Inc., Checkpoint Software Technologies Ltd., IBM Corporation, Foreseeti, Sophos, Forcepoint LLC, Palo Alto Networks Inc., Bitglass, Imperva, Intel Security, Proofpoint Inc., Zscaler Inc., FireEye Inc., CloudPassage, Fortinet Inc., Avanan, Illumio, vArmour, Aqua Security, Cloudflare, SiteLock, Tenable Inc., and Accenture.
The global cloud security market grew from $13.36 billion in 2022 to $16.04 billion in 2023 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.1%. The Russia-Ukraine war disrupted the chances of global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, at least in the short term. The war between these two countries has led to economic sanctions on multiple countries, a surge in commodity prices, and supply chain disruptions, causing inflation across goods and services and affecting many markets across the globe. The cloud security market is expected to grow to $32.74 billion in 2027 at a CAGR of 19.5%.
The cloud security market includes revenues earned by entities by providing cloud security services that automate the processes for protecting an organization’s cloud, avoiding unauthorized access, provides identity & access management, data loss prevention, web security, e-mail security, security assessments, intrusion management, encryption, disaster recovery, and network security.The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. Only goods and services traded between entities or sold to end consumers are included.
Cloud security is a set of policies, procedures, and technologies that work together to protect cloud data. Cloud security protects against data breaching, loss of confidential data, and insecure application programming interfaces (API) and improves the security capabilities and risk assessment of the cloud providers.
North America was the largest region in the cloud security market in 2022.Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest growing region in the forecast period.
The regions covered in the cloud security market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa.
The main types of cloud security are application security, database security, endpoint security, network security, and web and email security.Application security has both hardware and software procedures to minimize data threats.
The different service models include infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and software-as-a-service (SaaS) and are deployed through public, private, and hybrid. It is employed in several sectors such as BFSI, healthcare, IT, and telecom, among others.
The rising number of cyberattacks is expected to propel the growth of the cloud security market going forward.A cyberattack is a malicious and deliberate effort by an individual or organization to breach the data of another individual or business.
Organizations use cyber security for minimizing cyber-attacks, as result, the rise in the number of attacks increases the demand for the cybersecurity market. For instance, according to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), an India-based government ministry, cyberattacks in India increased from 3.9 lakhs in 2019 to 11.5 lakhs in 2020. Therefore, the rising number of cyber-attacks drives the growth of the cloud security market.
Technological Advancements have emerged as a key trend gaining popularity in the cloud security market.Many companies are launching new technological solutions in cloud security so as to meet customer demand.
For instance, in July 2020, Fortinet Inc., a US-based cloud security company launched a cloud-to-cloud WAN solution for enhancing multi-cloud applications. The solution offers centralized management with end-to-end visibility in multiple cloud environments and reduces the complexity by saving time and resources and also providing API applications for security requirements.
In December 2021, F5 Networks, a US-based cloud security company acquired Threat Stack for an amount of $68 million.With this acquisition, F5 networks intend to extend their portfolio in cloud security solutions and also strengthen their security capabilities.
Threat Stack is a US-based cloud security management company.
The countries covered in the cloud security marke report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA.
The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).
The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.
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