This IDC study provides a top-down sizing of the security and vulnerability management (SVM) market, which incorporates the security management and vulnerability assessment markets. The study covers CY08 for the market sizing and forecasts the market for the period 2009-2013. Specific vendor revenue and market shares are included in this study.

"As organizations continue to expand the number and type of security products they use, it becomes more difficult to know if those products are providing the right type of risk mitigation," says Charles Kolodgy, research director for Security Products. "Security and vulnerability management tools can be used to make 'security smart' by discovering hard-to-find threats, supplementing security controls with policy, and automatically providing remediation of security problems."

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