While organizations are sailing in an increasingly complex threat landscape, security leaders make strategic changes to unified platforms and emerging technologies, according to the new security and identity report in 2025 of 2025 Hide. The complete study has collected the responses of 1,800 partners, end users and security personnel and IT around the world, and reveals a significant transformation of the way companies approach securityWith mobile references and an artificial intelligence emerging as the main engines of innovation.
“The security industry is at a pivotal moment when the integration of modern technology with existing infrastructure is no longer optional, it is imperative,” said Ramesh Songokrishnasamy, main vice-president and director of technology at HID. “The fact that 73% of security leaders now prioritize unified software solutions shows that we have gone beyond traditional partitioned approaches. Organizations require platforms that can evolve with their needs while providing exploitable intelligence. »»
The main conclusions of the report include:
A marked increase in mobile identification information and the adoption of biometrics, indicating a shift in traditional access methods
The rapid rise in mobile references, with 61% of security leaders identifying their proliferation as a higher trend, signals a significant change in traditional access methods. Almost two thirds deploy or plan to deploy mobile solutions. At the same time, the demand for biometric technologies such as fingerprints, iris and facial recognition is increasing: around 35% of respondents currently use biometric technology, while 13% provide, indicating significant growth potential in this segment.
Growing demand for unified security management solutions that rational operations
While organizations diversify security technology, many security leaders (67%) make measures to adopt software focused Safety solutions, citing that the unification of multiple data collection methodologies would be “somewhat” or “very important” (73%) to their organization.
Farm preference for open platforms that facilitate transparent integration
Interoperability has become synonymous with progress in the security industry in recent years, and the trend continues while more than half of security professionals have declared that open solutions were “extremely” or “very” important for their organizations.
Strategic focus on converging platform solutions rather than autonomous products
Almost two-thirds of organizations and 73% of integrators and consultants report an evolution towards software-oriented security solutions that fill physical and digital functions such as video surveillance, access control and intrusion detection in a more unified platform.
Significant transformation of channels caused by digital innovation
The security channel undergoes an important transformation led by digital innovation. While 77% of Canal’s partners believe that they are adapting to these changes, the growing demand for the end user for AI, cloud solutions, IoT integration and advanced analysis reshapes the expectations of the services. To prosper, the canal must constantly evolve and adapt to meet the evolutionary needs of the market and monitor the pace of digital transformation within the security sector.
Accelerated adoption of AI agents to improve security operations
AI agents are quickly adopted to improve security operations. Use cases proliferate on access control, identity management, video and management of security management platforms. The main advantages mentioned include improving the efficiency and speed of security processes (50%) and improved data analysis capacities in real time (47%).
The emphasis on sustainability in the security decision -making and the budget authorizes.
Sustainability is always a key factor in security decision -making, with 75% of security leaders who now take them into their process of selecting solutions. However, sustainability is not the most critical factor when selecting new solutions, because security and profitability are always the highest priority for 80% of integrators and consultants.