Global Unidirectional Security Gateways Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global Unidirectional Security Gateways Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Unidirectional Security Gateways enable safe IT/OT integration, disciplined control, and real-time industrial network monitoring. The gateways replace firewalls in industrial network environments, providing absolute protection to control systems and OT networks from attacks originating on external networks. Unidirectional Security Gateways enable vendor monitoring, industrial cloud services, and visibility into operations for modern enterprises and customers by replicating servers, emulating industrial devices and translating industrial data to cloud formats. As a result, Unidirectional Security Gateways technology represents a plug-and-play replacement for firewalls in industrial environments, without the vulnerabilities and maintenance issues that always accompany firewall deployments.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global Unidirectional Security Gateways market finds that the global Unidirectional Security Gateways market reached a value of USD 262.64 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 364.41 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 5.61% during the forecast period.

COVID-19 Potential Implications for the Unidirectional Security Gateways

Since the COVID-19 virus outbreak in December 2019, the disease has spread to almost 100 countries around the globe with the World Health Organization declaring it a public health emergency. The global impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are already starting to be felt, and will significantly affect the Unidirectional Security Gateways market in 2020. COVID-19 can affect the global economy in three main ways: by directly affecting production and demand, by creating supply chain and market disruption, and by its financial impact on firms and financial markets. During the epidemic, the resumption of work, operations, revenue targets, and industry development of the Unidirectional Security industry were all challenge.

Meanwhile, the COVID-19 outbreak continues to develop fast. There are signs of successful containment in some areas in China and South Korea, while fears grow accelerating infection rates in other countries-Europe, North America, Latin America and Middle East notably. How the situation develops over the coming days, weeks and even months remains uncertain, creating a risky business environment.

At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 virus outbreak has swept the world, and the economic development and people's lives of all countries have been affected. Technology companies are facing unprecedented challenges, including the unidirectional security gateways industry. According to our third-party database, phishing and malware attacks related to the COVID-19 outbreak have increased dramatically, from less than 5,000 per week in February to more than 200,000 per week in late April. In addition, in May and June, as countries began to lift anti-epidemic measures, attackers intensified their attacks related to the COVID-19 outbreak. Compared with March and April, at the end of June, all types of global cyber-attacks increased by 34%.

Market Growth Drivers

As cyber threats become more complex, industrial control systems (ICS) are even more vulnerable to attack. Cyber security has been a topic of concern for industrial control systems for over a decade. Cyber threats range from conventional viruses and botnets impairing operations to the point that costly physical processes must be shut down while control system components are repaired, to targeted or advanced threats to specific facilities due to hacktivists, terrorists and even nation-state militaries and intelligence agencies.

Unidirectional security gateways are being deployed routinely in some industries to protect control system networks from online attacks from external networks. Industrial control system standards and regulations are evolving to include unidirectional gateways as an alternative to firewalls. The gateways are being deployed routinely even to protect network connections which on the surface appear to have strong bi-directional communications requirements. Industrial security standards are evolving to include mention of this alternative to firewalls, and in some cases to offer regulatory encouragement for the use of unidirectional gateways. Practitioners responsible for securing industrial control system networks as well as control system networks for large physics experiments are advised to become familiar with this alternative to conventional firewalls.

When companies connected their control networks to their corporate networks for the purpose of gathering this data, they introduced the security problems that plague the corporate networks today. Everything from viruses to APTs can jump across networks and get into the control networks that used to be thought of as invulnerable. Unidirectional gateway technology provides much stronger security than firewalls. The technology is already in use at every nuclear power plant in the United States, and there is a strong need for it in many other industrial situations. Moreover, applicability of data diode technology goes beyond the realm of critical national infrastructure. Many election systems run on old software and machinery, which make them vulnerable to cyberattacks. By adopting unidirectional security gateways into this kind of legacy system, it is possible to gain more security for the system without having to take them offline or similarly update them and possibly expose them to more vulnerabilities.

All in all, the demand in these fields is getting stronger and stronger, and the development of downstream industry has driven the development of Unidirectional Security Gateways industry

Market Risk and Restraints

With the widespread outbreaks of ransomware, viruses and other malicious software across the internet, alternative methods of securing the corporate network are being considered. A unidirectional network is created through the use of the unidirectional security gateway ,While this method is highly secure, its stringent controls, high cost, and the lack of maturity of standards and solution providers in this space limits the viability of this solution for mid-market companies and definitely excludes it from small business use, except in very limited scenarios. current solution also has a fairly high cost of implementation and maintenance. Given that, this solution has limited usability for small and mid-sized entities.

The cost is on the higher end of most likely out of budget considerations for small and medium sized businesses (SMB). Additionally, care must be taken when considering these types of solutions as until the technology and vendors reach a higher level of maturity, there is significant risk to the future sustainability of the solution.

In addition, unidirectional security gateways require specialized knowledge and skills to install, which clients do not always possess (unidirectional security gateways can take up to two days to install). Configuration and monitoring may also add to the expense and user complexity of the device, potentially discouraging organizations with fewer in-house ICT skills. Installation costs, however, vary depending on the vendor. All these become the limitations of the unidirectional security gateways industry.

Region Overview:

Europe had the highest growth rate of all regions.

Company Overview

The top three companies are Owl Cyber Defense (Tresys Included), BAE Systems, Fox-IT with the revenue market share of 12.68%, 11.14%, 8.55% in 2020.

Owl Cyber Defense cross domain, data diode, and portable media solutions provide unexploitable security checkpoints for absolute threat prevention and secure data availability. Certified by the U.S. government, independent testing authorities, and international standards bodies, Owl technologies and services help to secure the network edge and enable controlled unidirectional and bidirectional data transfers.

BAE Systems advanced defense technology protects people and national security, and keeps critical information and infrastructure secure to provide customers with a competitive edge across the air, maritime, land and cyber domains.

Segmentation Overview:

By type, Regular Data Diode segment accounted for the largest share of market in 2021.

Application Overview:

By application, the Government segment occupied the biggest share from 2017 to 2022.

Key Companies in the global Unidirectional Security Gateways market covered in Chapter 3:

Nexor
Fox-IT
Genua
Siemens
INFODAS
Belden (Hirschmann)
Owl Cyber Defense (Tresys Included)
Deep Secure
Rovenma
VADO Security Technologies
ST Engineering (Digisafe)
Advenica
BAE Systems
Waterfall Security Solutions
Fibersystem
PA Consulting
Arbit Security

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the Unidirectional Security Gateways market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

Regular Data Diode
Ruggedized Data Diode

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the Unidirectional Security Gateways market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Government
Aerospace & Defense
Power
Oil & Gas
Other

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)