BalaBit IT Security Achieved Nearly 60 Percent Year-Over-Year Revenue Increase Driven by Compliance

June 17, 2011 - PRLog -- New York, June 15, 2011 – BalaBit IT Security, an innovative information security company, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies announced an increase of 59 percent on a year-on-year basis in 2010. According to industry and analyst predictions last year there was a slight increase on the IT security market, where the drivers were the compliance related investments. BalaBit’s performance – as a niche market player, due to its comprehensive global partner and customer base – highly exceeded the global market expectations. For 2011 BalaBit expects to report a 40 percent growth of revenue and the number of employees by extending its global partner network and further increasing the revenue share from global sales.

The company has been developing IT security software technologies since 2000, aiming to satisfy even the highest security needs. BalaBit offers solutions for companies handling sensitive data and processes, such as the financial and telecommunication sector, manufacturing, and multinational enterprises. The company’s revenue from its most popular product, Shell Control Box, an activity monitoring tool for privileged access (system administrators, executives, outsourcing service providers), increased by 187 percent from 2009 to 2010. BalaBit’s open source log server application, syslog-ng, helping customers to meet compliance regulations, also contributed to the successful results with 28 percent revenue growth, and Zorp Gateway contributed 19 percent.

Supporting quote
”Our financial results underline the success of our long term global strategy. Last year we not only strengthened but further increased our market positions.  As a technology company, we focus on creating an innovative atmosphere, which results that our products are acknowledged among the best of breed solutions worldwide, tested and awarded by for instance ICSA labs and West Coast Labs” said Zoltán Györkő, Business Development Director at BalaBit IT Security. ”In the next few years we expect the consolidation of compliance related tools to be one of the most important market trends. This means that all solutions, which were enforced to be implemented by regulations, and now operate as isolated tools, organizations will now gradually involve them to create added values. This process helps vendors who are able to satisfy both IT security and system management needs at the same time.”

Market trends and expectations for 2011
•    Compliance drives investment priorities: IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice firm, predicts in its recent White Paper titled “Compliance is More Than Just Cost: Creating Value Beyond Compliance” #IDCWP05T) (#IDCWP05T) a return to growth for IT investment strategies in EMEA banking after two years of regressive or flat spend in 2011. This market has multiple growth drivers, but the key component is the sheer volume of new regulations that are being added by local and regional oversight organizations that compound an already highly regulated industry. On average, European banks spend around 10% of their IT budget on compliance. In 2011, IDC expects this to increase to 15% to 20%, depending on the size of the organization.
•    IT Security budgets are still spent on solutions to strengthen the first line defense: although most companies already have implemented their basic IT Security infrastructure, IT security vendors see that most part of the IT Security budgets are still spent on secure content and threat management solutions.


Supporting resources
• Executive summary of the IDC White Paper titled Compliance is More Than Just  Costs: Creating Value Beyond Compliance, February, 2011, #IDCWP05T sponsored by BalaBit
• Shell Control Box Product overview video
• Shell Control Box Product Description
• syslog-ng Product Description
• Log Message Classification With syslog-ng, White Paper
• The Six Cornerstones of Logging, White Paper
• Zorp Gateway Product Description

About BalaBit
BalaBit IT Security is an innovative information security company, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies to help customers be protected against insider and outsider threats and meet security and compliance regulations. As an active member of the open source community, we provide solutions to a uniquely wide range of both open source and proprietary platforms, even for the most complex and heterogeneous IT systems across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
BalaBit is also known as “the syslog-ng company”, based on the company’s flagship product, the open source log server application, which is used by more than 650.000 customers worldwide and became the globally acknowledged de-facto industry standard.
BalaBit, the second fastest-growing IT Security company in the Central European region concerning Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list, has local offices in France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and in the USA, and cooperates with partners worldwide. Our R&D and global support centers are located in Hungary, Europe.
For more information visit www.balabit.com.


Press contact
Andrea Ipolyi
PR manager
BalaBit IT Security
phone: +36 20 390 4139
e-mail: andrea.ipolyi@balabit.com
blog: http://andrea.blogs.balabit.com/


Walter Caon
BalaBit USA
410 Park Avenue 15th Floor Suite 1500
New York, 10022
phone: +1 917 546 6715
e-mail: walterc@us.balabit.com

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BalaBit IT Security is a developer of unique network security solutions like:
- the syslog-ng system logging software,
- and the BalaBit Shell Control Box, an appliance that can transparently control, audit, and replay SSH, RDP, and Telnet traffic.