Recently, IDC officially released the report "China IT security hardware, software and service panorama 2014-2018 prediction and analysis".

The report points out that with the increasingly severe situation of information security, the government has established the central national security committee and the central leading group for network security and informatization. Now, information security has risen to the national strategic height. At the same time, with the increasing demand of users for information security, China's information security market has great potential in the future. In 2013, the scale of China's IT security market was US $1890.5m, up 13.6% year on year, especially the rapid growth of IT security hardware market, up 15.9% year on year. It is estimated that the size of China's IT security market will reach US $3713.1m by 2018, with a compound growth rate of 14.5% from 2013 to 2018.

IDC points out that intelligent security analysis is becoming the mainstream. Based on the security analysis technology of big data, through the collection of information security data from various data sources, in-depth analysis and mining of valuable information, response to unknown security threats in advance, reduce risks and achieve the best security protection. Intelligent security analysis based on big data is bound to be the development trend of security field. Big data will be the driving force for a major change in the entire security industry, and will drive intelligent information security models. Its areas will include security information and incident management (Siem), network behavior management, user identity authentication and management, fraud detection, risk and compliance. In view of the hot topic of defense against apt, more and more security companies are focusing on detection technology and intelligent analysis based on data to detect and analyze threats.

IDC reports that in the IT security software market, the security and vulnerability management software market (SVM) is growing rapidly. Enterprise security products are gradually developed from independent deployment to solve security problems in one aspect, to need to consider security problems systematically, to build a platform that can manage information security in a unified way, and the real value of security operation center is being recognized by more and more enterprise users.