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What Security 50 Highlights for 2025
UNION biometrics Selected for the 2025 Security 50
Global Market Trends and the Rise of AI-Driven Security Technologies
UNION biometrics has been selected for the 2025 Security 50, the annual global ranking published by A&S Magazine that evaluates security companies worldwide based on revenue performance and growth momentum.
As a leading biometric access control company from Korea, this recognition highlights UNION biometrics’ growing global competitiveness and technical expertise. Beyond the ranking itself, the Security 50—together with the accompanying Tech Trends Survey—offers valuable insight into how the global security market is evolving in 2025.
Notably, these insights closely align with UNION biometrics’ long-term strategy: building AI-driven biometric and access control solutions for the next generation of intelligent security environments.
How the Global Security Market Is Shifting
Each year, the Security 50 provides more than a list of top companies. It serves as a snapshot of where the security industry is heading—and the 2025 results send a clear message.
The market is steadily moving beyond traditional video surveillance toward AI-powered access control, biometrics, and integrated security platforms. Security is no longer only about watching events unfold; it is increasingly about identity, intelligence, and automation.
Overall Ranking: Shifting Power in the Global Market
At the top of the ranking, Hikvision, Dahua, and Motorola Solutions continue to lead with video-centric portfolios. At the same time, companies such as ASSA ABLOY, UNION biometrics, and Suprema—representing the access control and biometrics segment—are showing accelerated growth and expanding global reach.
This reflects a broader shift in market momentum. While AI-enhanced video surveillance remains an important foundation, growth is increasingly being driven by AI-based biometric authentication and access control.
In short, the industry is moving beyond simple event monitoring toward identity assurance and intelligent, AI-powered access management.
Product Group Ranking: Where Demand Is Concentrating
A closer look at the product categories further explains this shift.
Integrated Platforms: Security as One System
The Multiple (Integrated Security Platforms) category is dominated by companies such as Hikvision, Dahua, Motorola Solutions, Axis Communications, TKH Group, and Intelbras.
What these companies share is a unified approach—combining video surveillance, access control, cloud services, and IoT. Their success reflects a clear market preference: organizations no longer want isolated products. They want one connected security ecosystem that is easier to manage, analyze, and scale.
Video Surveillance: Still Strong, Still Evolving
Video surveillance remains the largest category, led by players including Tiandy, Hanwha Vision, Milestone, VIVOTEK, IDIS, and Mobotix.
Innovation continues through AI video analytics, multi-sensor cameras, and cloud-native VMS platforms. Video is no longer just about recording—it is becoming smarter, more contextual, and more deeply integrated with other security systems.
Access Control & Biometrics: One of the Fastest-Growing Segments
Perhaps the most telling trend appears in Access Control (Biometrics & Credentialing).
Companies such as ASSA ABLOY, Allegion, ZKTeco, Gallagher, UNION biometrics, and Suprema continue to demonstrate strong and consistent growth, with the APAC region emerging as a key center of innovation in biometric access control.
This segment sits at the intersection of identity, AI, and security operations, driven by growing demand for biometric verification, mobile credentials, multimodal authentication, and AI-enhanced access control.
UNION biometrics operates at the center of this high-growth segment, where accurate identity verification is becoming a core element of modern security.
AI: The Engine Behind Security Modernization
According to the 2025 Tech Trends Survey, one point is clear—AI is no longer optional. It is the core engine powering next-generation security.
AI-Accelerated Biometrics
Deep-learning–based facial and fingerprint recognition, real-time anti-spoofing, and edge AI optimization are setting new performance standards, particularly in high-security environments.
AI Analytics for Business Intelligence
AI-driven analysis of access logs, sensor data, and video events is turning raw data into actionable intelligence—improving operational efficiency and enabling faster, automated risk response.
AI Agents: Toward Autonomous Security Operations
AI Agents capable of analyzing conditions, making decisions, and triggering actions autonomously are emerging as one of the most promising technologies. A&S identifies AI Agents as a high-potential growth area for the coming years.
Together, these trends point toward a future where security becomes a fully AI-orchestrated ecosystem, connecting authentication, monitoring, analytics, and response.
UNION biometrics’ Strategic Direction
Aligned with these global trends, UNION biometrics is advancing an AI-driven roadmap built on three core pillars:
- Advanced AI biometric algorithms and anti-spoofing technologies
Enhancing accuracy, robustness across environments, and protection against increasingly sophisticated spoofing attacks. - Data-driven intelligence and operational analytics
Transforming access, attendance, and sensor data into actionable insights for anomaly detection and policy optimization. - Next-generation AI-assisted control software (Alpeta-X direction)
Expanding toward AI Assistant and AI Agent capabilities to support automated, intelligence-led security operations.
Together, these initiatives reflect a clear industry progression: AI-accelerated biometrics → AI-driven insights → AI-powered autonomous operations.
Looking Ahead
2025 marks a pivotal moment for the global security industry. The transition toward AI-driven identity, data-centric intelligence, and multimodal authentication is accelerating—and becoming irreversible.
UNION biometrics’ inclusion in the Security 50 is more than a milestone. It confirms that the company’s technology and strategy are aligned with where the global security market is heading.
As the industry continues to evolve, UNION biometrics will work closely with partners worldwide to deliver AI-ready biometric and access control solutions, helping shape the next generation of intelligent security.
