Information security market in China to grow by over 20% annually
Posted by Ken Y-N on April 23rd, 2010 at 03:52pm
An article from TMCnet.com (translated from the Chinese source, it seems) discussed the growth in the Chinese security market, describing a predicted growth of 21.5% on average over the next three years. The growth sectors were listed as:
[M]obile Internet security, mobile cloud computing security, trusted computing, trusted network, security authentication, security management, data security, secured transmission, and emergency security service.
I know various Chinese universities are doing a lot of research in these fields, so it will be interesting to see what sorts of systems they are using to meet these security needs; are they home-grown or imported?
Further down the article was a rather strange pair of statistics:
5.6% of China’s personal computers used by Internet users were installed with security software.
7.4% of [cellphone-based Internet users in China] used security software.
I can all too easily believe the lack of security software on PCs, but 7.4% of mobile phone internet users having security software seems far too high, unless they are talking about proxy servers supported by default by mobile operators that perform various URL blocking functions.
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