In order to better help end users win the market, IDC offers the following recommendations
• Strengthen product development iteration: On the one hand, security audit products of technical service providers should adapt to the background of the integration of IT and OT, and help users solve monitoring and audit problems in different environments at the same time. At the same time, users’ requirements for refined and fine-grained audit of audit products have gradually increased in the context of a large increase in log volume. In addition to the full flow audit, the audit of assets, accounts, equipment, data, behavior and other aspects has become a key capability of audit products; On the other hand, the cloud of industrial enterprises has become a general trend, and the cloud and virtualization form of industrial security audit products will help technology service providers open up a new situation and open up new markets.
• VMIVME-7700-350-007700-111000-H Assist users to build an integrated and intelligent industrial control safety system: For end users, the back-end safety management and safety operation and maintenance operation platform is faced with the problem of large data volume and difficult judgment. Security audit products should give full play to their own advantages, use artificial intelligence and other technical capabilities to build intelligent security policies and models, and then improve the ability of product analysis, and finally improve the timeliness and accuracy of incident judgment and processing.
• The shortage of industrial security personnel needs to be addressed: technical service providers need to have a large number of professionals who understand both IT and OT security knowledge to provide users with professional security operations services to help enterprises solve the problem of professional talent shortage. In addition, “generative AI” related technologies can help users solve simple security problems through questions and answers, and ultimately improve customer satisfaction and increase user stickiness while improving user security defense effects.

VMIVME-7700-350-007700-111000-H IDC China network security senior market analyst Wang Yiting said that at present, many industrial enterprises have begun to accelerate the implementation of new industrialization and new quality productivity, and accelerate their investment in resilient infrastructure, smart manufacturing, smart factories, digital twins, industrial simulation, artificial intelligence and other aspects. Among them, safety is the premise of new quality production, and industrial safety construction is of great significance to maintain the development and operation of enterprise business. As an important safety compliance product, industrial control safety audit provides the basis for enterprise safety investigation through the record and analysis of traffic, assets, accounts, equipment, behavior, data, etc., and has become an essential product for the industrial safety construction of end users. In the future, refined, fine-grained, intelligent security audit products that match user needs will win more market recognition and effectively help users implement the construction of an integrated security defense system. IDC will also keep an eye on this market.