Ever-industrious hackers are churning out unprecedented volumes of spam and malware and launching massive DDoS attacks aimed directly at data centers every day, a research report said.
The Infonetics Research report also said this trend is “forcing providers to shore up their networks and develop innovative security solutions to protect themselves and generate revenue.
“For the most part, data center buyers want to buy security solutions from large, established companies who offer a broad range of products—they have a lot riding on their security implementations, and they need a large neck to choke if something goes wrong,” said Jeff Wilson, principal analyst for security at Infonetics Research.
“But there’s always room for small providers who offer highly-innovative solutions.”
The report also said DDoS prevention systems are the top security platform in which service provider respondents plan to invest over the next 12 months.
Nearly 30% of respondents say they need 40G ports on security gear now, with 75% saying they’ll need100G interfaces by 2014
Respondents have deployed or are evaluating security products from a massive list of vendors, and there is no clear cloud and data center security leader, the report added. There is, however, a clear affinity for vendors with diverse security offerings (hardware appliances, virtual appliances, and server software), it said.
Infonetics said it interviewed 24 incumbent, competitive, and data center/cloud specialist carriers in North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific about their strategies for deploying security in the data center.