Security 50 season is upon us: Take our Tech and Market surveys

As every year at asmag.com, autumn is dedicated to preparations for our annual flagship editorial project: the Security 50 Ranking of the biggest and most important companies in the security space.
 
For over two decades, Security 50 has served as a reliable benchmark for a constantly evolving industry. To reflect those ongoing changes, Security 50 will this year feature some bigger and smaller updates to its well-established format. To get an early glimpse of what's new, you can take our Tech Trends and Market Sentiment surveys now—launched this year in a brand new, streamlined format.
 
By taking part, you won't just help us gauge the sentiment about technology and market trends among security professionals; you will also enter a draw for a chance to win one of three US$50 Amazon gift cards.
 

What's new this year

To better capture the operational realities of today's security market, we have made key structural refinements to how we collect and interpret industry data:
 

• A Unified Tech Perspective: We have retired separate, siloed surveys for video security, access control, and general technology. As cross-domain integration and software convergence accelerate, we are evaluating the entire physical security ecosystem as a single, interconnected landscape.

• Objective Maturity Metrics: Rather than asking for subjective opinions on how "mature" a given technology feels, we are gathering practical deployment indicators and interpreting the data directly to build an objective baseline.

• Early Market Signals: While the security industry has seen significant consolidation over the past two decades, notable changes in market dynamics will be clearly apparent in our ranking this year—that is as much as we can reveal for now! To see whether these underlying market shifts mirror the broader sentiment among our global readers, we have added dedicated questions to explore those exact dynamics.

Help Us Map the 2026 Landscape

Whether you are a system integrator, enterprise end-user, consultant, manufacturer or distributor, your field experience provides the missing context to our corporate market analysis. Your input directly ensures our editorial coverage reflects what is happening on the ground.
 
Completing the survey takes just about 5 minutes, and your feedback will directly inform our upcoming editorial coverage as part of Security 50 and beyond.