Forbes -
5 Jun 2013 22:05

I have been an IT security industry analyst for 13 years. For much of that time the epicenter of the business was indeed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Industry giants like Cisco, Juniper, McAfee, Symantec, and Fortinet are based there. In 2008 out of 1,200 security vendors world wide, 237 were based in Silicon Valley. Even Israeli firm Check Point Software moved their headquarters to Silicon Valley prior to their IPO. Check Point's move back to Israel is one reason they are no longer dominating...
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