Kia ora and welcome to the February-March 2025 issue of New Zealand Security Magazine! We hope your year has gotten off to a great start, and we look forward to bringing you the best in security industry news and commentary over the coming year!
This issue marks the beginning of the second year of NZSM to be published “digital only”. We welcome your feedback on our digital content and engagement to ensure that we’re delivering news and views to you in a way that suits you.
As always, a big thanks to our wonderful advertisers. Our advertisers truly do play a critical role within New Zealand’s security industry by contributing to a vibrant and informed security sector through their sponsorship of the magazine. If you are interested in advertising with us, please go get in touch.
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The 2025 New Zealand Security Awards Aotearoa are open for nominations! Now in its fifth year, the WiSAAs are New Zealand’s premier awards celebrating the achievements of women in security – including those working in the private sector, government, and the uniformed services. Make this year the year you nominate a deserving colleague… and don’t leave it to the last moment!
Being our first issue for the year, this edition of NZSM focuses on identifying the key security industry trends for 2025, and we feature the ‘top trends’ listings by experts from Avigilon, Gallagher, Yubico, Genetec, Gunnebo, and Axis.
In short, when read together you’ll notice some common trends coming through among the key trends lists. These include: the move to the cloud (and hybrid in particular); cautious and targeted adoption of AI and advanced video analytics; stricter privacy, cyber and data protection laws; the need for security systems to deliver outcomes beyond security; and growing cyber threat surfaces.
In other news, we continue our coverage of NZ aviation security issues, we acknowledge Aotearoa’s finalists in the first-ever Global OSPAs, we report on the new ministerial advisory group targeting serious crime, the WEF names its top global risks for 2025, Jamie Williams writes about why CCTV shouldn’t be the only tool in your security strategy, and much more!
There’s plenty more great reading inside this issue of NZSM, so I hope you enjoy. Also, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing to our regular eNewsletter THE BRIEF. It’s a great way to keep up to date with the latest. Details on the Defsec website.
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Nicholas Dynon, Auckland
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