For four years, the world market of cloud services used by companies to provide information security (IB) will double, predict Gartner analysts.

According to their estimates, in 2016 the cost of organizations for cloud services for cyber defense on a global scale reached 4.84 billion dollars. In 2017, they will rise by 21%, to 5.85 billion dollars, and in the next three years the market volume will be measured 6.86, 7.8 and 8.9 billion dollars respectively. Thus, in 2020, sales of cloud-based IB services will be twice as high as in 2016.

According to research director Gartner Ruggero Contu, among the cloud-based IS services, the most popular among companies are solutions for secure Internet surfing and e-mail, as well as identity and access management (IAM) systems,.

At the same time, IAM solutions, information management and security events (SEIM), threat protection tools, cloud isolation environments, data encryption services, endpoint security management, and web applications have the greatest growth potential..

In Gartner they say that the growth of the cloud information security services market is promoted by the increase in the number of cyberthreats, the economic and operational benefits from using such solutions, as well as the lack of highly skilled personnel in this field.

"The cloud environment meets the natural needs of small and medium-sized businesses. Simplicity of deployment and management, payment of services as they are used and simplified functions make this model of cyber security protection attractive for organizations that do not have enough staff resources, "Contu said..

According to a global poll conducted by Gartner in early 2016, public clouds will become the main model for using more than 60% of IS applications by the end of 2017.