ICT security and physical security in high performance systems: Emerging technologies, future trends and the market place

In this work the convergence of ICT security and physical security is addressed. Starting by analyzing the impact of technology penetration on the global market and subsequently on security. Security spending in the Global IT market is analyzed, focusing on the development of the split out, which revealed the fact that spending is not always in the right sector. ICT Security and its classification in the different sectors are presented by taking into consideration the major security classes and their impact. Finally, an outlook of emerging future technologies is presented, focusing on the sector video surveillance, which is the driving potential of both physical and ICT-security.