Classification of Information Security Products

We usually use 4 main solution categories... Perimeter, Threat and Vulnerability, Content, and IAM... But if you want to look at the solutions with product categories, here is my high level view:

Security Product Areas
• Firewall
• IPS IDS
• Antivirus,Antispam, Malware(email)
• Encryption
• URL Filtering (and AV AS Malware)
• Proxy-Cache-WAN Acceleration
• Web/XML gateway frontend security
• VPN management
• Remote Access (SSL ,client)
• DRM
• Authentication
• NAC, 802.1x
• Wireless
• UTM
• Endpoint UTM
• DDOS
• NBAD
• SIM
• Risk Management
• BCP/DR
• Vulnerability Management
• Patch Management
• Virtual Machine - Vmware
• Compliance / Policy management
• Identity / Provisioning Management
• Incident management
• Secure Application Development
• Platform Security (e.g Sap, Mainframe )
• Database

There are also generic areas, and a detailed endpoint products area which I will discuss in another post.