Why One of the World's Leading Analyst Firms Placed Corero Alongside the Biggest Names in Cybersecurity
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Introduction
The phone rings at 3 a.m. Something broke. Someone got hit. The business just stopped making money. That’s the reality for organizations without the right protection in place. Our job is to make sure our customers never get that call.
MarketsandMarkets just released their DDoS Protection & Mitigation Security Market report, a comprehensive analysis of a market projected to grow from $5.8 billion in 2025 to $10.39 billion by 2030. The report maps every vendor that matters in this space across two critical dimensions, product footprint and market share, and positions Corero as a market leader strengthening its presence across every category they measured.
Corero landed in the Star category.
That puts us in the upper-right quadrant of their Vendor Matrix, the highest designation for both product footprint and market presence, alongside our partner Akamai. For a company that has spent the last decade obsessing over one thing, protecting your network so you can sleep at night, this recognition means something.
But let’s be clear about what it actually means for you.
What It Takes to Be a Star
MarketsandMarkets doesn’t hand out this designation lightly. Their evaluation spans multiple dimensions, and Corero received an “Excellent” rating across every single company footprint category: regional footprint, offering footprint, vertical footprint, and overall company footprint.
That’s not a participation trophy. That’s validation that our platform, our partnerships, and our presence are working for customers in every geography, every industry, and every deployment scenario that matters.
The report specifically highlights the breadth of our portfolio. SmartWall ONE™ delivers the sub-second, inline DDoS protection that made us a name worth knowing. CORE extends that protection into traffic analysis, Layer 7 defense, and Zero Trust Admission Control (ZTAC). And our SecureWatch Managed Services put our 24/7 SOC team behind every customer who needs expert eyes on their network around the clock.
Three products. One platform. Complete business continuity.
Why This Matters More Than a Logo on a Slide
Analyst recognition is great for press releases. But the reason it matters to us goes deeper than that.
When MarketsandMarkets evaluated the DDoS protection market, they didn’t just look at speeds and feeds. They studied how vendors solve real problems for real organizations. And the case study they chose to spotlight tells that story better than any datasheet ever could.
The report features a Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) organization that turned to Corero when their existing defenses weren’t keeping up. This wasn’t a company shopping for the cheapest option or the flashiest dashboard. This was an organization responsible for services that millions of people depend on every single day. The kind of organization where downtime isn’t an inconvenience. It’s a public safety issue.
They chose Corero because we could deliver always-on protection without adding operational complexity. No rip-and-replace. No army of analysts required. Just automated, real-time defense that integrates with existing infrastructure and starts working the moment it’s deployed.
That’s business continuity in practice, not in a pitch deck.
The Akamai Factor
The report also highlights our strategic partnership with Akamai, and for good reason. When you combine Corero’s on-premises precision with Akamai Prolexic’s 1+ Tbps of cloud scrubbing capacity, you get something no single vendor can deliver on their own: true hybrid DDoS protection.
Here’s why that matters. Cloud-only solutions introduce latency and leave you dependent on BGP rerouting that can take 5 to 15 minutes to activate. On-premises-only solutions can be overwhelmed by volumetric attacks that exceed your local capacity. The Corero and Akamai integration gives you both layers, working together, with unified visibility through a single portal.
Your infrastructure. Your control. Cloud scale when you need it.
For the CNI organizations, service providers, financial institutions, and healthcare systems that depend on us, that combination is what separates a security incident from a business continuity crisis.
A Platform Built for What’s Next
Getting named a Star matters. But what matters more is what we’re building next.
Corero started as a DDoS protection company. We’ve evolved into something bigger. SmartWall ONE remains the fastest inline mitigation engine on the market, but CORE has expanded our capabilities into traffic intelligence, application-layer security, and admission control. Our solution now includes HTTPS/TLS inspection, anti-bot protection, outbound DDoS defense, and AI-powered configuration.
This isn’t feature creep. It’s a deliberate expansion into the capabilities our customers have been asking for. Because the organizations that trust us with their DDoS protection are the same organizations that need visibility into encrypted traffic, control over who accesses their network, and intelligence about what’s happening across every layer of their infrastructure.
We call it Business Continuity Protection. Not because it sounds good on a website, but because that’s what it actually delivers. When your services stay online, your customers stay connected, and your revenue keeps flowing, that’s not just security. That’s peace of mind.
The $10.39 Billion Question
The DDoS protection market is growing at 12.3% CAGR through 2030. Managed services are growing even faster at 13.4%. Every analyst report points to the same conclusion: organizations are moving from reactive, cloud-only defenses to proactive, hybrid architectures that combine real-time on-premises protection with scalable cloud capacity.
That’s the market we built Corero to serve. Not the one chasing the lowest price. Not the one willing to accept 6-minute mitigation windows as “good enough.” The market that demands sub-second response, automated protection, and zero operational overhead.
Being a Star in the MarketsandMarkets report confirms what our customers already know. What the CNI organizations, Tier 1 service providers, and global enterprises that deploy SmartWall ONE already experience every day.
When you choose Corero, your network is protected. Your services stay available. Your team gets to focus on what they were actually hired to do.
And you get to sleep at night.
