IDC: China Database Audit Market Share Report 2023 Released
Database Audit Market
Beijing, July 19, 2024
In recent years, the country has been vigorously developing the digital economy, the digital transformation of enterprises has been deepening, and business scenarios have become more and more diversified, coupled with the development of artificial intelligence technology to promote further the explosive growth in the amount of generated and stored data.IDC's latest Global Datasphere 2024 shows that the scale of China's data volume will grow from 30.96ZB in 2023 to 97.06ZB in 2028, with a 5-year compound growth rate CAGR of 25.7%. According to IDC's latest Global Datasphere 2024, China's data volume will grow from 30.96ZB in 2023 to 97.06ZB in 2028, with a 5-year CAGR of 25.7%. Such a huge amount of data undoubtedly puts forward higher requirements for enterprises in data security protection, from the point of view of the degree of data security practices in China and even global enterprises, compliance construction is still the primary work, and at the current stage, encryption, DLP, data access governance and other traditional data security products and technologies are still the first choice of each enterprise to ensure their data security compliance construction. Database audit is an important means of data access governance, both from the point of view of the enterprise's demand for security compliance or the need to improve the performance of the existing audit, the development of China's database audit market will be in a relatively positive development trend for quite a period.
IDC has officially released its market share research report on China Database Auditing Market Share, 2023: Compliance Scenarios Driven by Dual Engines 《中国数据库审计市场份额，2023：合规场景双引擎驱动》(Doc#CHC50973324 , July 2024) for the China Database Auditing Market. The report provides a detailed study of the China Database Auditing market size, growth rate, key players, and market and technology trends in 2023.
IDC data shows that the China database auditing market size was RMB 1,197 million in 2023, achieving a year-on-year growth of 8.0% compared to 2023. In terms of market share, vendors such as Qixingchen Group, ACE Information, Alibaba, Mechatronics, and Green Alliance Technology comprise the major players in this market. The details are detailed in the figure below:
Database auditing under IDC definition is a network security auditing product deployed at the database server or network boundary, which audits user authorization, data addition/deletion/modification/query, etc. of the database. Database auditing is the process of tracking, recording, analyzing and reporting database operations, which can monitor database access and operations, and detect and respond to security events promptly.
Based on this study, IDC believes that technology service providers should focus on the following trends:
Rational use of artificial intelligence technology
Generative AI does bring new ideas and directions to database auditing products in terms of capability enhancement, especially to a certain extent, it can improve the ability to identify the data access behaviour of the product, thus enhancing audit accuracy and efficiency. However, ensuring the security of the training data in the model is a matter that must be prioritized, and any enhancement in capability should be based on the premise of not introducing new security risks.
Diversified Product Layout
To adapt to the development of emerging technologies such as cloud computing and the Internet of Things, technology providers should focus on the future, actively expand their product lines on the existing basis, and develop products that support the capability of multi-cloud environments. In addition, they can adopt a "product + service" approach in the expansion mode, helping customers realize security construction and compliance needs through professional consulting services and customized solutions.
Growing importance of ecological cooperation
Technology vendors should actively seek or explore ways to establish partnerships with other security solution providers to complement their strengths and work together to create a comprehensive and effective data security ecosystem and enhance brand impact.
Analyst Views
Chen Jia, IDC China network security analyst, said that with the acceleration of the digital transformation of enterprises, enterprises increasingly emphasize data security compliance. From a development perspective, the application of AI capabilities supported by large models has the opportunity to significantly improve the ability of database auditing in data access behaviour identification, thus improving the accuracy and effectiveness of auditing; the development of cloud computing has opened up a new track for database auditing, injecting new vitality into the market. However, the growing volume of data and the rich demand for data sharing and data circulation scenarios are also constantly challenging the product capabilities of technology vendors.
