Fortinet wins as UTM defies security slowdown

Fortinet outstrips competitors in EMEA security appliance market as UTM sales rocket

Unified threat management (UTM) defied a slowdown in the wider EMEA security appliance market in the second quarter, according to IDC.

UTM sales now account for 54 per cent of security appliance sales in the region after growing 12.9 per cent year on year in Q2, compared with a 0.2 per cent slowdown in the wider market in value terms, the market watcher said.

UTM kingpin Fortinet emerged from the quarter in the most credit as its share of the EMEA security appliance market rose from 7.9 to 11.1 per cent on the back of 41 per cent year on year growth.

It is still dwarfed by Check Point, which sold $161m of security appliances during the period, 8.7 per cent more than the year ago quarter, handing it 19.2 per cent marketshare and second-placed Cisco, which saw its Q2 revenues fall 15.2 per cent to $141m.

Palo Alto finished fourth after 28 per cent growth thrust its marketshare from 5.1 to 6.5 per cent year on year. Fifth-placed Juniper suffered an 11 per cent drop in sales but still chomped out 4.8 per cent marketshare.

The Western European market saw security appliance revenues rise 2.4 per cent to $646.8m, IDC said. UTM sales represented 56.5 per cent of that total.

"The European appliance market is driven by the UK and Germany - the two largest economies - which represented over 45 per cent of the total Western European market last quarter," said Romain Fouchereau, manager, security appliance research at IDC.

"UTM appliances continue to be the main market driver in Western Europe, and although IDC sees organisations' interest in IDP products, they often prefer to have it deployed through UTM/NGFW rather than a standalone product."