Technology moves quickly, as military and commercial tools and toys merge with security applications to create both new solutions and risks for the enterprise. What should you be on the lookout for this year?

These rugged smart card access control readers feature stainless steel construction, epoxy encapsulated electronics, audiovisual feedback, and a modern low-profile design, which helps reduce the cost of repairs and replacement due to vandalism and harsh environments.

This updated social media monitoring and analysis platform enables the use of location-tagged data to discover, engage and analyze content across Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Sina Weibo and other social media channels.

For busy investigators and security departments, this VMS organizes and manages events and create incident reports.

This shield looks like an average laptop bag, but built into it is a lightweight and discreet ballistic shield – a three-foot long blanket of protection against most handgun, shotgun and pistol-caliber sub-machine gun threats.

This access control solution offers customizable designer locking form factors in a variety of trims and finishes, pairing with advanced wireless access control on smartphones.

This series of network video recorders (NVRs) come with either 4- or 8-port embedded Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches, and they are pre-configured with video management software and have 2TB and 4TB of storage, respectively.

An update to the existing BoonConnect software tool will enable technicians to access a verity of door functions remotely to resolve issues faster and minimize downtime.

This operational intelligence solution covers many customer service operations processes at venue entries, including welcoming and greeting, access control and ticket validation, marketing and sponsorships, and non-intrusive security screening.

This bullet camera combines 24/7 high-contrast thermal video and high-performance built-in video motion detection to provide intrusion detection and visual awareness in daytime and nighttime conditions.