Sizing The Cloud Security Market

As enterprises embrace a diverse cloud ecosystem, a new generation of software is emerging to address the security requirements of highly distributed IT infrastructure. These new offerings make up for the missing features of perimeter-based security solutions in their ability to discover, analyze, and control corporate data across bare metal, virtual machines, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and are rapidly maturing into an independent category Forrester calls cloud security solutions. This report organizes today's fragmented set of cloud security solutions into four discrete categories for S&R pros and projects spending patterns for the cloud security category as a whole.