Competition and variety hurting security.

The existence of too many security companies in the market is causing information overload for IT managers, according to experts.

As the security market is becoming flooded with the creation of companies like mushrooms, IT managers are becomes overloaded with security information, products and services.

Check Point founder Gil Shewd has warned that there are too many products some of which have not been rigorously tested and that means that there are products for “every buzzword in the industry”.

Assuming IT managers had unlimited budgets they would still not have enough time to become familiar with the products available in a particular market, and it is this delineation and sudden expansion of the industry that Shewd has pinpointed as problematic.

The biggest threat to security is the fact that those I charge to do not even have enough time to asses even ten percent of products and so do not keep a watchful eye of developments which results in security holes and increased failures in the system.

With over 700 security vendors in the market, many of which niches firms is it increasingly difficult for companies to cross this current minefield and Shwed calls for the market to consolidate and become accessible.