Turnover for security software in Vietnam reached 16.6 million USD lastyear, an increase of nearly 12 percent compared with 2013, according to arecent report from International Data Corporation (IDC).

The same growth is expected for 2015, especially for cloud computing-based applications.

The IDC survey for software markets in the last six months of 2014 inAsia Pacific showed that expenditures for network security, includingintrusion prevention systems and firewall applications, had increasednearly 20 percent in 2014 compared to 2013.

"Vietnamesecompanies focused on protecting end-using devices and network securitywhile reducing expenditures for web and messaging security," Ha NgocKhuong, market analyst of IDC Vietnam, said.

In 2014, theend-using devices security market grew 12.4 percent, largely due topurchases from Government offices and communication companies.

Local enterprises' increased investment for big data and cloud computing is expected to increase turnover for security.

For the last six months of 2014, security for end-using devices on thepublic cloud increased 102 percent compared with the same period in2013. It is expected to reach growth of 74 percent in 2015.

Meanwhile, local companies are still in the first stages of applyingbusiness mobiles and developing a strategic route for implementation ofenterprise mobile foundation.

According to an IDC surveyreleased at the Vietnam Enterprise Mobility Breakfast Briefing earlythis week, there will be modest growth in mobile solution implementationthis year.

Expenditures for mobile enterprises are expected to reach over 22 billion USD in 2015 in the region.-VNA