6. Security of IP, by IP and for IP will be the norm;

7. Video will be everywhere – video intelligence will move to the sources;

8. Mobile, mobile –all will be mobile;

9. Public/private and national/international borders will blur;

10. Privacy will continuously battle with convenience and utility – and will usually lose;

This will not come about as the result of a seismic shift, but as the result of a constant pressure to accept that security is not just a part of what we do – but a part of who we are.

The following appeared in Security Director magazine.
It was written by Kevin Daly, CEO of Maxxess, and was entitled “Security Over the Next Twenty Years”

Germany unites, Drexel fails, Mandella freed, Exxon indicted, Hubble launched, Windows 3.0 released, Gulf War begins, World Wide Web kicked off, US President breaks his “no new taxes” pledge.

All of these things happened in 1990 – twenty years ago this year. At the time, WTC stood for Western Texas College, the foreign troops in Afghanistan were Russian, people communicated by telephone and health care was “only” 11% of the US GDP.

What would we have forecasted for the next 20 years in Security at the time?

What should we forecast today for the next 20 years in Security?

Here goes . . .

1. Security will become more personal, more coherent, more immediate;

2. Security will focus on the most valuable assets – people and information;

3. Security will be ubiquitous;

4. Security will lose much of its identity – it will simply be a part of everything we do;

5. Speaking of identity, credentials will be digital, unified and, of course, biometric – standalone passports, driver licenses, access badges, insurance cards, boarding passes, etc. will be a thing of the past