This month's cover story — State of the Market: Video Surveillance — marks the beginning of our annual State of the Market Series. This year’s report features a lot of talk about cloud, along with an overall sense of optimism.

Senior Editor Rodney Bosch cites the recent edition of the Genetec State of Physical Security (SOPS) report writing that, “Over the past decade, the integration of cloud technology has been a gradual process, but lately is gaining momentum. In the 2023 SOPS survey, 44 percent of end users indicated that over a quarter of their physical security environment is cloud or hybrid-cloud compared with 24 percent in the 2022 survey.”