The IFSEC Video Surveillance Report 2017 provides a snapshot of market trends and expectations, the factors that drive procurement decisions, how control rooms use CCTV and the threats and drawbacks.
Below are a few findings we picked out from the report to share with you:
- Most CCTV systems are a proprietary (closed) system, this accounts for 56% of systems installed
- 48% of security professionals have carried out integration or plan to integrate CCTV with other systems to collate data for business intelligence
- Most individuals/businesses have an end to end system oppose to a plug and play, 52% of survey respondents said they had an end to end system
- Amongst hundreds of security professionals including building managers, facility managers and more, they were asked which of their building functions they would describe as having a ‘smart functionality’, 67% answered saying CCTV
- Despite the General Data Protection Registration (GDPR) coming into force in May 2018, 14% of individuals/businesses with IP systems said they were not concerned about their CCTV systems potential vulnerabilities
- Research from cloud based surveillance company Cloudview found that traditional DVR based systems and cloud based systems were vulnerable to malicious breaches
- 48% of businesses/individuals are more concerned today about hacking threats than they were 2 years ago
- Majority of CCTV owners at 43% had IP CCTV systems over analogue or a mixture of IP and analogue
This is only a snapshot of the full report, to find out more, the full report can be downloaded from here: https://www.ifsecglobal.com/video-surveillance-report-2017/