In recent years, the frequent occurrence of security incidents in the industrial field, the continuous deepening of the integration of IT and OT under the background of digital transformation, and the continuous enhancement of policy supervision are all driving the development of China’s industrial control safety market. Among them, in addition to traditional network security technology, industrial control firewall, industrial control network gate, industrial control safety audit, industrial control safety management platform and other products have ushered in a period of rapid market development. IDC’s latest “Global OT Security Forecast, 2022-2026” report shows that by 2026, the global industrial security market will reach 6.76 billion US dollars, with a compound annual growth rate of 28.4%.

At the same time, 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 released the market research report “IDC MarketShare: China Industrial Security Audit MarketShare, 2022: Demand Release, Market size to achieve rapid growth”. The report conducted a detailed study on the scale, growth rate, major players, market and technology development trends of China’s industrial control safety audit product market in 2022. Among them, the report data show that in 2022, the scale of China’s industrial control safety audit market is about 100 million US dollars (about 670 million yuan), with a year-on-year growth of 27.9%, and the market has entered a period of rapid development. Among them, CLP Anke, Anheng Information, Winot, SAN Borun and Tiandi Hexing occupy a dominant position in the fierce market competition with their products and market advantages. The specific market share of manufacturers’ industrial control safety audit products in 2022 is shown in the following figure:

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As an important product of end-user industrial safety construction, industrial control safety audit has achieved rapid growth in the past two years under the joint promotion of policy compliance and business needs. In the face of growing and changing customer needs, IDC offers the following recommendations to help technology providers win in the market:

Continuously updating the core capabilities of the product is the key to customer growth: with the increasing volume of logs in the user network environment, the requirements for the performance, function, safety and reliability of the audit product are further enhanced. In addition, more and more customers tend to choose audit products that combine security detection and security defense capabilities to meet the security requirements of their specific scenarios.

The cloud and virtualization form of industrial control security audit products will develop rapidly to adapt to the changing needs of users.

Industrial control security audit will develop in the direction of intelligence, automation, visualization, and collaboration: First of all, in addition to the self-learning of the whitelist, the intelligence and automation of audit products can help users solve the pain points of log analysis and log management. At the same time, the presentation of audit results is crucial, and the refinement and visualization of audit content and statements are of great value to end users. Finally, audit products need to interface with many other security products as well as third-party platforms, customer-owned systems, and platforms for unified management.

Industry solutions will help manufacturers and users to achieve a win-win situation: in the face of the market, focus on the advantageous industries, and launch industry models and solutions that meet the requirements of the industry play a key role in improving the market coverage of technology providers, and industry models can also better meet the scenariographic needs of users, so as to achieve a win-win situation between users and manufacturers.

IDC China network security market analyst Wang Yiting said that in recent years, under the joint promotion of national policies, industry laws and regulations and enterprise business needs, the digitalization and production automation transformation of industrial enterprises have further accelerated, and industrial security has become particularly important as the basis for the stable operation of enterprise business. Among them, as a key link in the construction of industrial network security, industrial control security audit has received the attention of many end users. It is precisely because of its important position in the construction of industrial safety, end users have put forward higher requirements for the performance, function, scene adaptation and other aspects of their products. In the future, industrial control safety audit products will develop in the direction of intelligence, automation, visualization, coordination and industry on the basis of original capabilities, and truly help users solve their security problems on the basis of compliance. IDC will also keep an eye on this market.