Detection Side Of The Market

Campbell also highlighted the rise of endpoint detection and response companies, which have offerings for monitoring endpoints for detection, containment, investigation and remediation. Players in that space include Cisco Systems, Carbon Black, Tanium, CounterTack, FireEye, Cybereason and Crowdstrike, he said.

"[Endpoint detection and response companies] are really catching a lot of attention with our customers right now because they're taking a slightly different approach to things," Campbell said.

The report said these offerings should be evaluated based on their capabilities around managed hunting, real-time agent scoring, centralized data, real-time search, incident containment, event feeding into SIEM and built-in sandboxing.