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The scale of the IP security market is phenomenal, and growing at an exponential rate.
Over 65 percent of the UK’s surveillance cameras sold today are IP-enabled, and the market is set to grow from $10.5bn worldwide in 2011 to $20.5bn in 2016.
And access control is heading the same way, with European access control systems growing from an estimated market size of $2.65bn in 2011 to $3.69bn by 2017.
This new video infographic from Mayflex makes for interesting viewing, and comes with an uncharacteristically upbeat backing track for a corporate video. There’s also some pretty amazing stats about data creation and storage, a huge issue for the security market as the adoption of IP systems continues to expand.
Since 2005, according to Mayflex, more data has been created than in the previous 40,000 years (astonishing, but hardly surprising when you think about it. Presumably they mean computerised data).
There are some interesting stats in here that really underline the opportunity that storage vendors in particular have in the security industry. It also highlights the importance for end users to think in a converged way about their security systems. If you’re not having long conversations with your colleagues in the IT department already, perhaps you should be thinking about scheduling a meeting with them ahead of this year’s IFSEC International show?
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Video Infographic on Changing Security TechThe scale of the IP security market is phenomenal, and growing at an exponential rate. Over 65 percent of the […]
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JonathanL
April 29, 2013 2:27 pm
4.4 million tech jobs will be created by Big Data? That’s an amazing estimate. The infographic threw out a lot of positive growth numbers but I think this is the one that caught my eye the most. Big Data is on its way up and growing it would be amazing for our field to see a boom like that and now is the time to learn and understand big data and how you can put it to work for your company. Very interesting…
Yes, it’s interesting, isn’t it? I come across a lot of Big Data information and articles from day-to-day but I’m still a sceptic. ‘Big Data’ is for me an inevitable expansion of data, not a ‘new’ thing as such. I’m trying to think of a security example. Let’s say, IP cameras now account for 65% of sales, do we day that 40,000 new security installer jobs will be or have been created in the security industry to install these cameras, or have installers mainly re-skilled to work with the latest tech. Big data for me is simply the latest tech,… Read more »
safeNsane
May 2, 2013 8:36 am
I was surprised to see that 70% of the companies were going to be rolling out WiFi solutions. I know that WiFi has been growing over the years but I still see the same security issues around WiFi that have been there since day one. Hopefully someone is watching that number and increasing the awareness of planning a WiFi deployment properly before we have a resurgence of war driving.
I think it’s a great thing to do though. As long as the network’s locked down properly. It really helps in flexible working, allowing staff to set up wherever, which is in turn good for overall efficiency.
Yes it’s a great tool if it is done correctly. We have campus wide WiFi solutions at all of our sites and it is invaluable. The downside though is that it requires a lot of planning to avoid too much bleeding of signal out into public areas, setting security policies around sharing access point credentials and locking down devices and traffic. If you’re in an area with a lot of public contact you have to give consideration to the amount of time someone could have to sit and bang on your access points trying to gain access without you seeing… Read more »
4.4 million tech jobs will be created by Big Data? That’s an amazing estimate. The infographic threw out a lot of positive growth numbers but I think this is the one that caught my eye the most. Big Data is on its way up and growing it would be amazing for our field to see a boom like that and now is the time to learn and understand big data and how you can put it to work for your company. Very interesting…
Yes, it’s interesting, isn’t it? I come across a lot of Big Data information and articles from day-to-day but I’m still a sceptic. ‘Big Data’ is for me an inevitable expansion of data, not a ‘new’ thing as such. I’m trying to think of a security example. Let’s say, IP cameras now account for 65% of sales, do we day that 40,000 new security installer jobs will be or have been created in the security industry to install these cameras, or have installers mainly re-skilled to work with the latest tech. Big data for me is simply the latest tech,… Read more »
I was surprised to see that 70% of the companies were going to be rolling out WiFi solutions. I know that WiFi has been growing over the years but I still see the same security issues around WiFi that have been there since day one. Hopefully someone is watching that number and increasing the awareness of planning a WiFi deployment properly before we have a resurgence of war driving.
I think it’s a great thing to do though. As long as the network’s locked down properly. It really helps in flexible working, allowing staff to set up wherever, which is in turn good for overall efficiency.
Yes it’s a great tool if it is done correctly. We have campus wide WiFi solutions at all of our sites and it is invaluable. The downside though is that it requires a lot of planning to avoid too much bleeding of signal out into public areas, setting security policies around sharing access point credentials and locking down devices and traffic. If you’re in an area with a lot of public contact you have to give consideration to the amount of time someone could have to sit and bang on your access points trying to gain access without you seeing… Read more »