The overall security appliance market in 2013.

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We seize this opportunity to share with you the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker.

According to this report, for the full year 2013, revenue grew 5.4% year over year to $8.6 billion, while shipments decreased for the first time since 2009, falling -2.1% to 2

million units.

Connectikpeople.co praises the performances achieved by Cisco, by underscoring that Cisco continues to lead the overall security appliance market with an 18.1% share in factory revenue for the fourth quarter on year-over-year growth of 23.6%.

Regarding the other aspects of the survey, geographically, Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) saw the highest year-over-year factory revenue growth in the quarter (14.9%), followed by Canada which grew at 11.9%. Central and Eastern Europe posted the largest decline in 4Q13, with revenue falling -4.9% compared to the prior year. The United States finished the year with growth of 7.7% in the quarter.

Check Point held the number 2 spot with a 12.7% share for the quarter as revenue increased 5.6% compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. Fortinet remained the third largest security appliance vendor, with a 6.6% share in the quarter. Juniper continued to build sequential momentum, but declined 6.4% compared to the prior year. Palo Alto Networks again held the fifth spot among security appliance vendors with a share of 5.4% on 47.7% growth compared to the prior year.

The Unified Threat Management (UTM) segment accounted for more than 40% of the appliance market. Firewall revenue declined -7.1% year over year, as more gateway appliances gain additional functionality and are counted as UTM. Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) again grew over the previous year, increasing 3.8% compared to 4Q12. Finally, the content security segment declined -2.9% year over year and accounted for 16.6% of the market.