This industry report covers the email gateway market. Gartner, Inc. positions Gartner in the Leaders quadrant in its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways (anti-spam, anti-virus, outbound content filtering, email encryption, intrusion prevention). In this report, Gartner analysts note that, "The e-mail security market is very mature. Targeted phishing detection, outbound e-mail inspection, encryption and delivery form factor are the major differentiators." Please enter your contact information to view the complete Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways 2010 report.
Magic Quadrant for Secure E-Mail Gateways
Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00175396, Peter Firstbrook, Eric Ouellet, 27 April 2010, RA5 04302011
The e-mail security market is very mature. Targeted phishing detection, outbound e-mail inspection, encryption and delivery form factor are the major differentiators.
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. The e-mail security market is very mature, and there has been minimal vendor movement in the Magic Quadrant since our last analysis.
. Spam-filtering effectiveness is at an acceptable rate for most organizations.
. Inbound improvements are still needed to detect targeted phishing e-mails, which are an increasing problem.
. Content-aware data loss prevention (DLP) that includes numerous prebuilt dictionaries and regulatory policies is a significant differentiator; however, buyers must understand how these capabilities will be used in context of the broader enterprise DLP strategy.
. Policy-based encryption is an increasingly important capability and a significant differentiator of leading products.
. E-mail security solutions are available in various delivery models. Appliances and security as a service (SecaaS) are the most popular, but the availability of hybrid (combination of on-premises and SecaaS) and virtual appliances is increasing.
. The breadth of the product portfolio is also an important consideration as organizations look to consolidate security buying around fewer, more-strategic vendors, especially in mature product domains.
MAGIC QUADRANTMarket OverviewThe market for secure e-mail gateways (SEGs) has matured considerably since our last Magic Quadrant. The penetration rate of SEG capability among Gartner enterprise customers is close to 100%. Few new vendors are moving into the market, and merger and acquisition activity has slowed considerably, as the Leaders quadrant fills up with strategic vendors with broad portfolios and formidable sales channels. Basic spam and virus detection effectiveness 2 is 99% or more for almost all the vendors Figure 1. Magic Quadrant for Secure E-Mail Gatewaysin this analysis. Although spam detection effectiveness is not perfect, it is within acceptable limits for most organizations, challengers leaders and buying activity is limited to organizations that are replacing aging appliances or are at contract termination.
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One area of significant differentiation among products in this analysis is in outbound e-mail security features, such as content-aware DLP and encryption - both of which are critical for intellectual property Integrated encryption (see Note 1 and Note 2) that can easily protection and privacy-related regulatory compliance. secure sensitive content for any recipient is a mandatory requirement for compliance. On-box or hosted encryption from DLP provides content inspection of an e-mail's body text, headers the same vendor is the most desirable; ... [download for more]
