United Kingdom (UK) security industry review

ASSA ABLOY has signed an agreement to acquire Rometal, a Brazil-based manufacturer of aluminium solutions and accessories, including interior door systems, cabinet doors, frames and pullers. "I am very pleased to welcome Rometal to ASSA ABLOY. This acquisition delivers on our strategy to strengthen our position in emerging markets through adding complementary products and solutions to our core business,” says Nico Delvaux, President and CEO of ASSA ABLOY. Customary closing conditions &l...

At the Golden Phoenix Casino in Northern Cyprus, first-class entertainment, hospitality, and security go hand in hand. With its Dallmeier video security solution, the casino has created the right conditions to reliably protect guests, employees, and assets while making the day-to-day work of the surveillance team more efficient. The Golden Phoenix Casino is part of the Limak Cyprus Deluxe Hotel, combining the upscale atmosphere of a luxury resort with a diverse casino experience. The property b...

IDS Imaging Development Systems is introducing an evaluation platform for modern embedded vision applications with the IDS GMSL2 Discovery Kit. The system combines intelligent camera modules with integrated image processing, GMSL2 (Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link) transmission technology, and an industrial-grade embedded PC based on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX platform. The embedded PC features matching GMSL connectors for the direct connection of the camera modules. Companies can borrow the Disco...

Camelot Secure, a cybersecurity company under DigiFlight Inc., announces it has been named “Overall Cyber Posture Company of the Year” in the 2026 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards, an international awards program recognising innovation and excellence across the global cybersecurity industry. The 2026 honour marks Camelot Secure’s second CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award in three years. In 2024, the company was named APT Solution Provider of the Year for its Advanced Persistent...

Interface Systems, a provider of AI-powered security and expert remote video monitoring for restaurants, retailers, and commercial businesses, today launched its free Retail Theft Incident Explorer, a searchable database designed to help retailers, journalists, researchers, and policymakers examine publicly documented retail theft. The Explorer brings together 1,120 incidents drawn from news reports and law enforcement announcements, covering incidents from 1st October 2025 through 30th Septemb...

Cequence Security, the pioneer in application, API, and agentic AI protection, publishes Agentic AI Runtime Security, Governance, and Control, a report on governing AI agents as they act. The report has been developed with input from KPMG in Singapore, examining how organisations can govern and secure Agentic AI as agents move from generating content to autonomously taking consequential actions. The findings of the report will be presented to senior business, technology, and policy leaders at a...

Commvault, delivering continuous recovery for the AI era, announces new AgentRecover capabilities designed to help organisations audit agent activity, restore agents, and recover the data and systems they affected across environments. With support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Microsoft Foundry, Commvault is extending full-stack recovery across supported AI agents and the enterprise systems they interact with. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Microsoft Foundry provide services for building, depl...

Commvault, delivering continuous recovery for the AI era, today announced Commvault Recovery Studio, a new approach to enterprise recovery that will use precise automation to bring back the business, not just the data. It will orchestrate the recovery of applications, identities, configurations, infrastructure dependencies, and datasets together in an automated, runbook-driven workflow to help organisations resume business operations fast. Vast arrays of interconnected components With Recover...

Honeywell Technologies introduces a set of new AI-powered building automation offerings, including EBI One, fire and life safety, and security innovations at Accelerate 2026, its largest-ever industry event with more than 2,000 customers and partners. The new technologies are designed to help building owners and operators modernise infrastructure, improve safety and efficiency, and accelerate the transition from automation to autonomy with practical, AI-driven features. “Buildings are at...

Managing access control for a single facility is very different from overseeing dozens of locations across multiple regions. At large, complex organisations, security teams must manage more access requests, frequent role changes, and compliance requirements across multiple sites. Access control systems are also often connected to identity management platforms, business applications, and corporate networks. This growing complexity is changing how organisations view access control. Older access c...

Most organisations operating at enterprise scale have more or less solved digital identity, consolidating directories, adopting single sign-on, and automating the workflows that govern application access, so that provisioning follows role changes and access revokes when employment ends. It is, by any measure, one of the more quietly impressive feats of enterprise IT over the past decade. Physical access has generally not followed, which creates exposure that rarely surfaces until an audit or an...

Inflation surged dramatically because of supply disruptions and high energy costs following the COVID pandemic and given the Russia-Ukraine conflict. More recently, inflation has cooled significantly, although it still has not achieved the historically targeted rate of 2%. Factors such as tariffs and the Iran war continue to drive broader inflation. The physical security market faces its own multiple trends that continue to drive inflation of the industry's products and services. We asked our Ex...

Passwords originated in ancient times, used by Roman military forces around the first century BC. Since then, passwords have evolved from physical words to the computer access control tools used today. Passwords are easy to implement, widely supported, and familiar to users. However, they are easily forgotten, stolen through phishing, prone to reuse, and vulnerable to credential-harvesting or brute-force attacks. We asked our Expert Panel: What is the role of passwords in physical security?

Control room operators face a tricky and ever-growing list of responsibilities. Every day, they're expected to monitor dozens, sometimes hundreds, of camera feeds, identify suspicious behaviour, and respond quickly when something goes wrong. Add in a constant stream of alerts, many of which turn out to be false alarms, and it's easy to see how even the most experienced security professionals can become overwhelmed. Indeed, in the UK alone, there are an estimated six million CCTV cameras, with...

One of the best business lessons I learned didn’t come from business journals or the boardroom. It came from a biography: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. If you haven’t read it, you should! The book covers the full arc of Jobs’ career, and while many of the most talked about lessons center on his entrepreneurship, perfectionism, and brand building, the one that has stayed with me is his philosophy of design. Digital music player market I don’t mean design in the sense o...