Lumension left the quadrant in 2016 with good reason- both Lumension and FrontRange merged to create HEAT Software, as part of a growth strategy to become a leading provider of hybrid service management and unified endpoint management software solutions.
Gartner included six visionaries on its 2014 Magic Quadrant for EPP: IBM, LANDESK Software, Lumension Security, Panda Security Stormshield, Webroot. Gartner uses “market understanding” as one of the evaluation criteria in positioning an endpoint protection platform vendor’s completeness of vision along with offering product strategy, and innovation. Gartner’s guide describes Visionaries: “They understand where the market is going or have a vision for changing market rules, but do not yet execute well.” Visionaries are typically smaller companies but have a very good awareness of how the market will evolve. Not far away, ESET Cloud-augmented malware protection system for advanced threat defense automatically processes suspicious activity and possible threats, quarantined with the ESET Live Grid network- 2016 sure loves cloud! Bitdefender made great improvements to the GravityZone management interface providing enterprise clients better insights into the state of malware, applications and advanced threats for physical, virtual and mobile endpoints. Niche players are described by Gartner as, “Companies that focus successfully on a small segment, or are unfocused and do not out-innovate or outperform others.” and that, “Niche players provide viable, uncomplicated anti-malware solutions that meet the basic needs of buyers or that focus on a specific protection capability.”īitdefender, F-secure, and ESET all became endpoint visionaries in 2016 and it’s no wonder why.
In 2014, Gartner named Bitdefender, Check Point Software Technologies, ESET, F-Secure, Qihoo 360 and ThreatTrack Security as niche players on its Magic Quadrant for Endpoint protection. So what’s changed in the market since 2014, according to Gartner? Let’s review factors that influenced change in positioning within the quadrant in 2016, as more often than not, rebranding, company mergers and acquisitions affect this greatly. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in its research publications. That graph is divided into four quadrants: niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders. In the 2016 MQ for Endpoint Protection Platforms, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 16 vendors that it considers most significant in the market, and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their ability to execute and their completeness of vision. has released the latest iteration of its annual Endpoint Protection Platforms Magic Quadrant (MQ) report.
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