The endpoint security market size is estimated to grow at an estimated Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 8.4% from 2015 to 2020.

Growth in the number of enterprise endpoints and consumer devices and access to critical data are creating a huge demand for endpoint security solutions across the world. The major factors driving the growth of the market is the need to mitigate IT security risks, growing BYOD trends among organization and increase in the frequency of endpoint attacks. Furthermore, due to rise in the demand for integrated endpoint security solutions and increasing adoption of cloud-based security solutions, the market finds huge opportunity to proliferate in the next five years.

Endpoint security includes a variety of solutions, such as anti-virus, anti-spyware/anti-malware, firewall, endpoint device control, intrusion prevention, and endpoint application control. These solutions enable enterprises to protect their endpoints from any type of malware attacks which may significantly affect the working of the enterprise.

The major difference between is that the customers do not have centralized management and administration whereas, enterprises have to maintain centralized management.

Antivirus is just a component of endpoint security. On the flip side, endpoint security not only includes an antivirus but many other security tools (like Firewall, HIPS system, etc). Endpoints security employs a server/client model to secure the various endpoints of the enterprise.

Endpoint security typically refers to an on-premise solution and Endpoint Protection refers to a cloud-based solution. An on-premise solution needs to be installed on the network and a cloud-based solution needs to be available in the cloud, for businesses to be able to subscribe to it.