In recent years, global industrial security incidents have occurred frequently, and many fields such as power, water conservancy, petroleum and petrochemical, and automobile manufacturing have been attacked to varying degrees, which have caused huge economic losses and social reputation losses to enterprises. It is also in the context of the increasingly severe threat situation that countries around the world pay increasing attention to industrial safety, and the industrial safety market has entered a period of vigorous development. IDC’s 2022 Global Industrial Security Market report predicts that the global industrial security market will reach $6.7 billion by 2026, with a five-year compound growth rate of 28.4%.

At the same time, China’s industrial safety construction efforts are also further strengthened. In recent years, the implementation of industrial Internet security-related laws and regulations such as “Isoguarantee 2.0”, “Regulations on the Security Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure” and “Guidelines for the Protection of Information Security of Industrial Control Systems” has been further accelerated, which have enhanced the importance of industrial network security construction from the perspective of policy compliance, and China’s industrial security industry has officially entered the fast track of development.

In this context, IDC officially released the “IDC MarketShare: China Industrial Control Firewall MarketShare, 2022: The report provides a detailed study on the size, growth rate, major players, market and technology development trends of China’s industrial control firewall product market in 2022. Report data show that in 2022, the scale of China’s industrial control firewall market is about 200 million US dollars (about 1.35 billion yuan), with a year-on-year growth of 23%, and the market has entered a period of rapid development. Among them, Winoute, Qiming Star Group, Six Cloud, Tianrongxin and CEC Anke occupy a dominant position in the fierce market competition with their product technology and market sales and other advantages. The specific market share of manufacturers’ industrial control firewall products in 2022 is shown in the following figure:

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In recent years, with the rapid growth of China’s industrial firewall market scale, industrial firewall market competition has gradually become white-hot, IDC believes that manufacturers should start from the following points to enhance product competitiveness, so as to win market recognition:

Constantly consolidating the product base ability is the basis for manufacturers to win the market: technical service providers should constantly update the industrial control firewall product’s own performance, safety and reliability, compatibility, environmental adaptability, protocol analysis ability and other aspects of the basic ability, in order to better adapt to market changes;
Industrial control firewall will integrate more security capabilities to meet the needs of end users: as the core product of industrial security construction, industrial control firewall will integrate more security capabilities such as intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, antivirus, audit, anti-ddos and so on in the future. In addition, the industrial control firewall in the future or according to different scenarios derived from asset management, threat intelligence, sandbox and other security capabilities to meet the requirements of different user scenarios for security capabilities.
Cloud, virtual form of industrial control firewall products will accelerate in the next three to five years;
Automation and intelligent capabilities will gradually become the standard equipment of industrial control firewall: at present, the intelligent and automation capabilities of industrial control firewall are still relatively primary, in addition to the identification and analysis of industrial protocols, its application of abnormal behavior, unknown threat detection, analysis, response and other aspects still need to be improved.
The ability of unified management and collaborative linkage of the industrial control firewall needs to be further improved: it is specifically reflected in the unified management of security equipment, and the capability iteration of collaborative linkage between security and other equipment and systems.
Manufacturers need to develop industry-specific models according to the industry in order to better meet the needs of users with different scenario characteristics.
IDC China network security market analyst Wang Yiting said that in recent years, driven by national policies and industry laws and regulations, the digital transformation process of industrial enterprises has accelerated, and industrial security construction has gradually received attention. Among them, the industrial control firewall as the core industrial network security products has become the foundation for the construction of industrial security system for end users, and it is precisely because of its important position in the construction of industrial security, end users for the performance, function, safety and reliability of their products to further improve the requirements. In the future, technology providers should stand on the needs of users in different industries, constantly update the core capabilities of products such as industrial protocol analysis, and strengthen the research and development of innovative capabilities such as intelligence and automation, so that the industrial control firewall can really help users stand the first shift of industrial security construction.