This IDC study provides an overview and analysis of the Western European security appliance market for 2007?2012. It includes a review of 2007 and a five-year forecast for 2008?2012.

The study examines the UTM, FW/VPN, IDS, IPS, and SCM security appliance markets as well as the total security appliance market, which looks at these five security appliance markets as a combined market.

For each of these five security appliance markets, the study covers the following areas from both a unit shipment and revenue perspective:

The study also looks at UTM, FW/VPN, IDS, IPS, and SCM security appliances' share of the total security appliance market for 2007 and their forecast shares for 2008?2012.

"During 2007, the Western European security appliance market grew by 12.7% in unit terms and 25.5% in revenue terms. IDC predicts growth from security appliances to continue and is forecasting an 8.7% CAGR in 2008?2012 in unit terms, and an 8.9% CAGR in revenue terms," said Romain Fouchereau, research analyst, European Systems and Infrastructure Solutions ? Security. "The Security appliance market growth will be driven by three workloads: UTM, the primary security appliance solution in Western Europe, which will keep growing as higher-end UTM enters the market; IPS solutions, which are finally taking off as more and more enterprises are using the technology to gain a better understanding of what type of data is traversing their networks and to monitor network connections; and SCM appliances, especially messaging security appliance, whose growth is fuelled by a combination of internal and external threats (spam and antivirus, but also data leakage prevention)."