Physical Security
Analysis of M&A Deals in the Physical Security Business
March 30th, 2021Maintaining Our Buildings During the Global Pandemic
March 25th, 2021
Contract Security Services or ‘Security as a Service’?
Buyers of Access Control and Video Surveillance Services now have the choice of using Contract Security Service companies or the new breed of ACaaS & VSaaS suppliers now coming from the physical security manufacturing business, with many looking to sell direct to the end user. Both are delivering sophisticated services that are reducing the total […]
Verkada Hack “Exposes How Broadly We’re Being Surveilled & How Little is Put into Securing IoT”
A damning IoT security breach occurred this week as a hacker group gained access to video surveillance feeds, as well as company and customer data, of Silicon Valley security startup Verkada. The hackers gained access to over 150,000 cameras, including those in Tesla factories and warehouses, Cloudflare offices, Equinox gyms, hospitals, jails, schools, police stations, […]
Will the Pandemic Drive More Growth for Access Control as a Service?
Memoori’s World Market 2020-2025 Report on the Physical Security business shows that all types of organizations across the world are investigating how they can leverage the cloud, as it is proving to be a very attractive proposition. We estimate that in 2019 ACaaS investment was worth $620 million and of this approximately 40% was installed […]
Major Trends in the Intruder Alarm / Perimeter Protection Market
The Intruder Alarm / Perimeter Protection (IA/PP) business is a mature market that is dependent on the fortunes of two vertical markets, the industrial and public sectors. When it comes to investing in modernising the protection of these sites, only in the last few years have innovative new systems and products been introduced. For this […]
2021 Could See the End of the Pandemic But Not a ‘Return to Normal’ Trading Conditions
Our 2020-2025 World report on the Physical Security business forecast growth of 3% over the course of 2021. Whilst the pandemic has continued to cause havoc to normal trading / working practices, vaccination programs are gathering pace in many countries and there is more optimism that that the COVID-19 virus can be bought under control […]
Tishman Speyer ‘Latches’ on to the SPAC Bandwagon with Smart Locks
Every startup wants to grow and succeed, and traditionally that would take one of two routes. Either showing enough potential to be acquired by a larger firm that will run it independently or integrate it with its other business units, thereby giving the startup’s shareholders a windfall and giving the startup’s products the chance for […]
COVID Safety & Compliance Becomes Driving Force for Adoption of Smart Buildings
Every crisis is different, affecting specific parts of society and specific geographic areas. The COVID-19 pandemic is as global as crises get, but more specifically is has had its greatest impact on our communal indoor environments. Our buildings were the hubs of commercial and social activity across the world before the pandemic but over the […]
Access Control & Identity Management Withstand the Worst of COVID-19
Memoori has charted the performance of the Access Control business during the last decade, witnessing demand for products expanded by a CAGR of 8.2%; and at the beginning of 2020 reaching sales of $8.7Bn. It has been problematic to size the market with confidence in 2020 because the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet been controlled […]
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