www.AmericanSecurityToday.com June 2020 - Edition 45
portunity for you to do well even
as you do good.”
In 2018 it was estimated that
there were 22 billion devices
connected to the internet.
In 2021 maybe as many as 46
billion and in 2025 it’s expected
to be in the neighborhood of
75.4 billion.
To give these numbers some
context, just imagine that a million
minutes in time is equal
to 694.4 days ago (almost two
years).
A billion minutes would be
around the time that Jesus was
alive.
A billion hours ago our ancestors
were living in the Stone Age and
a billion days ago was before
Homo sapiens had evolved.
So, wrap your mind around 46
times that by next year.
Needless to say, there will be tremendous
opportunities and
challenges both in the short
and long term.
The growth of IP based surveillance
and convergence provides
powerful platforms in transforming
the security industry.
It had been estimated that by the
end of 2017, twenty percent of
organizations would have added
digital security services devoted
to protecting business
initiatives which use devices or
IOT services.
Add to this the transformation,
the transition from the office
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