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Vista and Virus 2.0 Challenge China's Network Security Product Market

2007-05-16 18:34 1202


BEIJING, May 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- CCID Consulting, China's leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong, recently released the latest analysis report titled “The Analysis Report on China's Network Security Market in 2007Q1”, which showed that the market reached a size of 1.104 billion RMB in 2007Q1, up by 21.1% year-on-year, demonstrating a clear growth momentum.

For “Figure: Total Size and Growth of China's Network Security Product Market in 2007Q1, please refer to http://www.ccidconsulting.com/upload_fr/07051401.jpg .

Central enterprises aim to grow bigger and more competitive, with information security on their agendas.

The State Council Information Office and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission jointly issued to 159 central enterprises a document entitled “The Guiding Opinions on the Strengthening of IT Application Work in Central Enterprises”. It required central enterprises to basically change their IT applications to enterprise-wide integration, sharing and synergy and build unified and integrated information systems of their groups by 2010. Currently, central enterprises still have a rather big gap to bridge in their information system infrastructure in order to stay strong and competitive, especially for those with an eye on the international market. There are still problems in overall enterprise management information systems building and information system security. There is also lack of high-level talent. The most notable difference between the “Opinions” and the existing guiding IT application principles for central enterprises is that there is a clear requirement for setting up the position of CIO in enterprises with the right conditions. It is specifically pointed out in the “Opinions” that emphasis should be placed on strengthening the security assessment of basic information networks and important information systems.

The Virus 2.0 era has arrived.

In 2007Q1, the viruses, Nimaya and Golden-Pig-Reporting-Good-News and the more recent Gray Pigeon lead to public concern on network security issues. These new viruses showed features different from those in the past: communication through inter-personal relations and word-of-mouth. These are very similar to the features of Web2.0. From the technical side, Nimaya and Golden-Pig-Reporting-Good-News both contain no high technical elements. However, their unique way of communication and the complicated gray economic industry chain have caused tremendous destruction and attracted wide attention from the whole society.

The official introduction of Vista gave rise to new application hotspots.

On January 30, Microsoft's heavyweight product Vista Personal Edition was officially released worldwide. The product took 5 years to develop, consumed 6 billion USD and represented the R&D work of 6,000 software engineers. Currently, the whole IT circles are joining hands with Microsoft to provide Vista System-based technical support for millions of existing hardware, software and peripherals. Meanwhile, they are also developing new hardware, software and services according to Vista's latest features. Compatibility with the Microsoft Platform is the key to the survival of security vendors. Whenever Microsoft introduces a new operating system platform, security vendors, content security vendors in particular, will introduce new anti-virus software products. Different from foreign vendors, domestic security vendors cannot get bottom layer code support form Microsoft. This implies that domestic vendors need to make greater efforts to achieve the perfect combination with Vista.

About CCID Consulting

CCID Consulting Co., Ltd. (also known as CCID Consulting), the first Chinese consulting firm listed in the Growth Enterprise Market of the Stock Exchange (GEM) of Hong Kong (stock code: HK08235), is a direct affiliate of the China Center for Information Industry Development (hereinafter known as CCID Group). Headquartered in Beijing, CCID Consulting has so far set up branch offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Harbin, with over 300 professional consultants and industry experts. The Company's business scope has covered over 200 large- and medium-sized cities in China. Apart from home market development, CCID Consulting is establishing international cooperation links across the United States, the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, by setting up agents in the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Italy and Russia, with the aim of going global.

Based on the four major competitive areas of powerful data channels, industrial resources, intense knowledge and deep understanding of information technology, CCID Consulting provides customers with consulting, research and IT outsourcing services covering strategy planning, IT application, marketing strategy, human resources and information technology outsourcing. Our customers range from industrial users in IT, telecommunications, energy, finance, automobile, to government departments at all levels and diversified industrial parks.

CCID Consulting is committed to becoming the No. 1 brand for strategy consulting, the No. 1 consultant for enterprise management and the No. 1 expert in market research. For more information, please visit our website at http://en.ccidconsulting.com/ .

For more information, please contact:

Grace Gao

CCID Consulting Co., Ltd.

Tel: +86-10-8855-9020

Email: gaojie@ccidconsulting.com

Source: CCID Consulting Co., Ltd.
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