This IDC study provides an overview and analysis of the Western European security appliance market for 2008-2013. It includes a review of 2008 and a five-year forecast for 2009-2013. The study examines the unified threat management (UTM), firewall/VPN (FW/VPN), intrusion detection systems (IDS), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and content management (CM) 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:

• Actual market sizes and growth up to 2008
• 2008 vendor trends and shares
• 2008 country trends and shares
• 2009-2013 market growth forecasts
• 2009-2013 country level market growth forecasts

The study also looks at UTM, FW/VPN, IDS, IPS, and SCM security appliances' share of the total security appliance market for 2008 and their forecast shares for 2009-2013.

"In 2008, the Western European security appliance market grew by 14.4% in revenue terms and decreased by 5.5% in unit terms. IDC predicts growth from security appliances to continue and is forecasting a 13.2% CAGR in 2009-2013 in revenue terms, and a 9.1% CAGR in unit terms," said Romain Fouchereau, research analyst, European Systems and Infrastructure Solutions — Security. "The security appliance market is still showing a healthy growth — and will continue do to so — and has been little impacted by the recent economic turmoil that has been very challenging for other IT technologies."