Along with the complication of network development, security risks bothering netizens more and more frequently. Therefore, demand for network security products is increasing. According to CCW Research’s statistic, security products’ sales reached 3.65 billion RMB by 2005, with annual growth rate of 27.3%. It was projected that from 2006 to 2009, CAGR would be 22.1%, and security products’ sales in 2009 would be twice the sales in 2005, that is 8.1 billion RMB.

 

Our analysts gave their insights of network security products’ major development tendencies. Firstly, there was a trend of network security optimization in current key industries. That is, users no longer settled for updating traditional security products to protect their network from attack. Instead, they became more interested in network total security solutions’ exploration. Secondly, the quick step of SMEs’ information construction had resulted in a coming upgrade of 72% enterprises’ IT application – from primary stage to mid- or high-level stage. Thus network security products should have a prosperous future in terms of SMEs’ market. Thirdly, various and criminal network menace stimulated many security products’ successive birth, as well as development of new technologies like active defending, unified security management, SOC and TCP etc. which enhanced network users’ self-protection ability greatly. The last point was, which had been referred in previous research, intranet monitoring products are attracting more users ’eye bulbs. Regardless its low application ratio presently, it was believed optimistically that intranet security product market was growing as a new thriving force in network security market.