International Market Research Firm Confirms ArcSight is Market Share Leader in SIEM for Fifth Consecutive Year

October 27, 2009 8:00 AM EDT

ArcSight Continues to Be the Leader in SIEM, with Nearly Double the Market Share of Closest Competitor

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ArcSight, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARST), a leading global provider of security and compliance management solutions that protect enterprises and government agencies, today announced that analyst firm IDC classified it as the market share leader in the security information and event management (SIEM) market for the fifth year in a row according to the IDC market analysis titled "IDC, Worldwide Security and Vulnerability Management Market 2009-2013 Forecast and 2008 Vendor Shares, September 2009."

According to IDC, ArcSight grew its market share from 18.6 percent in 2007 to 19 percent of the total market revenue in SIEM in 2008. This is the fifth year running that ArcSight has been named the SIEM market share leader. As in 2007, the five top vendors in SIEM have nearly 50 percent of the market. In addition, ArcSight's market share is nearly twice that of its closest competitor in SIEM.

IDC also reported that the company placed second in the security management category and that the company moved up from fifth to fourth leading vendor in the overall security and vulnerability management (SVM) market.

According to the IDC report, an "area where SVM makes security smart is in the SIEM market, where an ever-growing set of security data has to be processed to find the critical information among a huge set of data. The SIEM market is important for providing audit information and ensuring proper utilization of security technologies."

"We are relentlessly focused on the success of our customers and that in turn is contributing to our successful growth," said Tom Reilly, president and CEO, ArcSight. "As cybercrime continues, organizations need a sophisticated solution to detect and protect their key enterprise information and infrastructure. We believe SIEM is an integral weapon in this war."

This IDC study provides a top-down sizing of the SVM market, which incorporates the security and vulnerability management submarkets. The study covers the 2008 calendar year for the market sizing and forecasts the market for the period 2009-2013.

About ArcSight

ArcSight (NASDAQ: ARST) is a leading global provider of security and compliance management solutions that protect businesses and government agencies. ArcSight identifies, assesses, and mitigates both internal and external cyber threats and risks across the organization for activities associated with critical assets and processes. With the market-leading ArcSight SIEM platform, organizations can proactively safeguard their assets, comply with corporate and regulatory policy and control the risks associated with cyber-theft, cyber-fraud, cyber-warfare and cyber-espionage. For more information, visit www.arcsight.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements, including without limitation the company's belief that its relentless focus on the success of its customers will contribute to its successful growth; and its belief that SIEM is an integral weapon to detect and protect organizations' key information and infrastructure. These forward-looking statements are subject to material risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ substantially from expectations. Investors should consider important risk factors, which include: the risk that demand for SIEM solutions may not continue at anticipated levels and may decrease; the risk that cyber threats may not continue to rise or that potential customers may not perceive the benefit of addressing those threats with products such as ArcSight's; and other risks detailed under the caption "Risk Factors" in the ArcSight Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, on September 9, 2009 and the company's other filings with the SEC. You can obtain copies of the company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and its other SEC filings on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

(C) 2009 ArcSight, Inc. All rights reserved. ArcSight and the ArcSight logo are trademarks of ArcSight, Inc.

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