New solutions security adoption given major boost


fice applications (e.g. Microsoft 365); and 70% of those in the security sec- tor are now strongly inclined towards cloud adoption. Further results can be accessed in the published white- paper: Landscape Report 2020/21: Hosted Security adoption in Europe. 51% say their company is currently using a cloud-based service for video surveillance (VSaaS) and/or access control (ACaaS). This is an increase of 3% over 2019 (48%) and broadly reflects projected growth in the physi- cal security market from USD $93.5b in 2020 to USD $120.3b by 2025 at a CAGR of 5.2% . The accelerat- ing adoption of hosted solutions is buoyed by its low cost set up, flexible scalability and demand for real-time and remote access to security data. Rodrigue Zbinden, CEO of Morphean SA, commented: “The results high- light a hosted physical security market that will see strong growth in 2021 as cloud applications are proven to deliv- er business continuity in challenging times. At the height of the lockdown, many business premises were unoc- cupied and potentially vulnerable, but remote monitoring and maintenance made possible by hosted security were a welcome advantage. We also saw a spike in demand for


frictionless access control enabling a totally hands-free experience and ne- gating the need for physical contact. Business leaders will now be consid- ering the learnings from the past year and looking to apply them to boost productivity, streamline costs and make organisations more agile.” For the security professional already working with cloud services, the growth in connected digital devic- es through the IoT is resulting in a growing appetite for physical securi- ty, such as network cameras, to en- hance existing IT systems and assist business intelligence gathering. 95% agree that if an existing security sys-


tem could deliver insights beyond se- curity to assist decision making (i.e. occupancy or test and trace analytics), it would influence adoption. More flexibility in working locations is the benefit respondents are most likely to identify from moving business functions to the cloud (50%), followed by easier collaboration (44%); more cost-effective (44%); safer / better se- curity (38%). 82% anticipate the lev- els/frequency of remote workers and flexible working in their organisations to be higher post-pandemic and in the longer term than they were pre-pan- demic.


Security will need to be enhanced to facilitate greater flexibility in worker patterns. An access control solution which is linked to HR records, for ex- ample, can check the swipe of an ac- cess card against staff records. A staff member who is flagged as being on leave, absent or no longer employed will trigger an automated alert to the relevant personnel. Surveillance cam- eras also provide secondary authenti- cation through visual clarification of an individual’s identity.


The ‘Landscape Report 2020/21: Hosted Security adoption in Europe’ is the third study of its kind by Morphe- an, and facilitates a better understand- ing of market trends with comparative data from 2018 and 2019. Other key findings revealed by the study include:


•78% anticipate organisational use of cloud technologies to increase in the future as a result of COVID-19. The security sector reflected a strong incli- nation towards cloud adoption (70%). •IT Services (52%) and Commercial Offices (49%) are the two sectors that anticipated the greatest degree of change in their organisation’s use of cloud technology. •73% of managers believe their or- ganisations are more inclined to adopt


cloud as a result of their governments’ responses to COVID-19 - UK (74%), Germany (71%) and Sweden (73%). •27% said physical security was op- timised in their companies, a rise of 4% on 2019 (23%). The retail sector was least likely to say that physical se- curity was optimised (19%). •VSaaS/ACaaS uptake shown to be more prevalent in Sweden with 59% already utilising such services, with 34% in UK and 31% in Germany con- sidering it.


Rodrigue Zbinden concludes: “For the physical security reseller, the study will demonstrate that hosted security solutions must play a major part in ex- panding their offering to a wiser cus- tomer base. Cloud-enabled physical security solutions represent an invest- ment into improving security and op- erations, a chance to forge new busi- ness relationships, and an opportunity to embrace future proof technologies in preparation for whatever challenges the future might hold.”


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