The Security Industry Association (SIA) has released its 2018 edition of its Megatrends list. The list is an annual top 10 of the major trends shaping the security industry and pushing integrators to make customers sites safer and to provide more value.

This year the top 10 trends were all about connection, integration and evolving to allow technology to move ever deeper into our lives.

Here are the top 10 trends shaping the world of security, according to SIA:

 

1 BOOMING GROWTH OF THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) page 6

2 CYBER MEETS PHYSICAL SECURITY page 7

3 ACCESSING AND ANALYZING SMART AND BIG DATA page 8

4 EVOLUTION OF RISK MANAGEMENT page 9

5 TRANSFORMATION OF THE CHANNEL page 10

6 SHAKE UP OF THE STATUS QUO page 11

7 MOBILE EVERYTHING page 12

8 CONTROL THROUGH CLOUD COMPUTING page 13

9 INTEGRATING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA page 14

10 EMERGING CONNECTED SERVICES page 15

 

Norris Inc. has technology and network experts on hand to help you take advantage of these ongoing trends and make your business safer, more connected and more cutting edge.

Drop Norris a line today to see how they can help.

 

What is Megatrends all about?

WHEN THE SECURITY INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (SIA) introduced the 2017 inaugural Security Megatrends™ as a compilation of forward-thinking insights chronicling the transformation of the physical security industry, the publication predicted a rapidly morphing landscape. Fast forward to this year’s Securing New Ground (SNG™) conference—and the developments have held true and escalated in quickstep fashion—perhaps faster than we envisioned.

 

What is Norris all about?

Norris, Inc.—a South Portland, Maine-based life-safety and security systems integrator with satellite offices in Bangor, Maine; Lee, New Hampshire; and Burlington, Vermont—was founded nearly 40 years ago by two brothers, Brad and Harty Norris. The brothers remain on the board of directors today and continue to help steer the enterprise toward its goal of advancing life-safety, security, and communications while striving to grow in its status as Northern New England’s leading systems integrator. Norris provides fully integrated life-safety and security solutions, comprising disparate systems including fire alarm, intrusion detection, access control, video surveillance, emergency notification, and communications.