The growing number of enterprises pivoting away from legacy hub-and-spoke to a contemporary cloud-first and mobile-friendly IT architecture drove the robust year-over-year (Y/Y) revenue increase in the $2 B Secure Web Gateway (SWG) market, according to recently published report from Dell’Oro Group.
“We see a growing comfort level and willingness among enterprises to embrace cloud-based network security for their users,” said Mauricio Sanchez, Research Director, Network Security and Data Center Appliances. “Cloud-based SWGs have emerged as the preferred network security tool to address the shortcomings in traditional perimeter and VPN solutions and accelerate the shift to SASE and Zero-Trust.”
Additional highlights from the 2Q 2021 Network Security & Data Center Appliance Quarterly Report:
Firewall demand was robust, with revenue again hitting low double-digit revenue growth. Virtual firewalls had the most substantial Y/Y revenue increase of nearly 40 percent among the various sub-segments tracked as enterprises workloads continued to migrate to a cloud-based architecture. Web Application Firewall (WAF) revenue rose nearly 30 percent, with cloud-based WAFs accelerating over 40 percent in the quarter, driven by the increase in the number of Internet-facing apps and the need to secure them.
