Critical business systems and their associated technologies are typically held to performance benchmarks. In the security space, benchmarks of speed, capacity and accuracy are common for encryption, packet inspection, assessment, alerting and other critical protection technologies. Different models used by the security product companies are the capability of processing the number of events per second, storage and services offered to the customers for evaluation of the products and the measure to sell the different products available in the security market.
Changing models of products and service delivery in the security domain may contribute in success penetrating the market effectively.
