Channel Best-Sellers: Winning Security Players

Internet Filters & Blocks

Each of the five vendors in the Internet Filters & Blockers category of CMP Channel Best Sellers survey saw significant market share losses in the first half of this year. Symantec still held the lion's share of the market (26.7 percent), but Secure Computing fared the best in terms of market-share retention—its 2 percent share was down only 0.7 percent from the first half of 2006.

Rounding out the top five were Trend Micro, Webroot and McAfee with percent losses of 1.8, 0.4 and 0.3, respectively.

Symantec has been challenged by the integration of Veritas into its organization in 2005. In February of this year, the security giant unveiled a channel program designed to enable VARs to reach more rewarding levels of partnership.

-- Jennifer Bosavage

Internet Filters & Blockers 1st half 2007 Market Share Market Share Change 1st half '07 vs. 1st half '06 Symantec 26.70% -47.2 Secure Computing 2% -0.7 Trend Micro 1.80% --6.8 Webroot 0.40% -5.3 McAfee Inc. 0.30% -2.0 * Ranking based on 1st half 2007 share of sales dollar volume. Highlighted vendor gained greatest share from 1st half 2006 to 1st half 2007 Source: The NPD Group/Distribution Track (Incudes GTDC Data), www.npd.com/lps/distributortrack