Antivirus market undergoing two major trends: movement beyond signature-based protection. Vendors are merging antivirus, antispyware and firewall software with endpoint operations, data loss prevention and full-disk encryption. As users face challenges ranging from malicious code to data loss, they want to solve them in a single sweep, not with point products. Some vendors are merging security with operational functionality, such as patch and configuration management, endpoint provisioning and backup. Don’t accept poor performance, but some vendors are putting a premium on being performance-oriented.”]