There are two major forces that have over the last 5 years brought about a reshaping of the structure of the Security Industry. The first is a rapid consolidation process that is particularly rife when a business is young, immature and growing fast. The second is a heady cocktail of converging technologies brought in from the even faster growing Web Services, IT and Digital Electronic industries. These technologies require companies to have a much larger minimum economic size in order to be viable. It is inevitable that these new technologies will continue to penetrate the business and accordingly consolidation through mergers and alliances will become more intense in the future. However we are now entering a period of meltdown in the world’s financial markets the scale of which has never been realised before and the impact of this is on our industry and the consolidation process is difficult to gauge at this stage. This article […]