Trend Micro wins out as SME sales crash

Anti-virus vendor leads way in SME security software sales but overall market shrinks

Small mercies: the SME security software market declined 30 per cent annually in Q2

Trend Micro has been named as the market leader in the SME security software space, but the overall market shrunk back almost a third during 2010's second quarter.

According to figures from analyst Context's SalesWatch, the vendor sold the highest number of security licences via distribution in the UK, France, Germany and Italy during the second quarter of 2010.

Alex Mesguich, vice president of enterprise research at Context, said: “The growth is largely attributable to Trend Micro's popular Worry-Free Business Security suite, with some products in this suite ranking first, second and fourth amongst the top-10 products sold in the SME security segment.”

But the findings also show that sales of security software licences within the SME space are down 30 per cent overall on last year.