Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

The changing market for converged security products

Monday, November 16, 2009


A number of critical market trends are aligning in an unprecedented manner leading to a market disruption that could dramatically change the logical and physical security arenas.

These game-changing trends include many factors.

Growing need for security

Market demand continues to grow for more effective solutions to secure buildings, information and people to address increasing identity theft, financial data fraud, litigation, attacks by disgruntled workers, network attacks, regulatory compliance pressures, geopolitical threats and more. Organizations are increasingly seeking to establish a significant level of trust for identities/people, information and devices.

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