What a year! As we bring to a period the book on the first year of the of the present day millennium (depending on your definition of exactly when the 21st hundred years begins).

What a year! As we bring to a period the book on the first year of the of the present day millennium (depending on your definition of exactly when the 21st hundred years begins), what have we seen?

- a Y2K enigma that was no problem;

- a dot-com revolution that has stalled into, perhaps, evolution;

- an Olympics robbed of drama by means of a tape-delay strategy;

- a promised of the present day political mandate that is anything on the contrary a mandate.

In short, you can view the year 2000 as a year when big expectations came up short. The security industry, however, delivered forward a number of promises - a multitude of just discovered product offerings on the market this year, of the present day businesses created, and mergers of established companies.

It's a dynamic industry. Technologies have expanded capabilities to strange levels, and we are now seeing vegetation in the protection of corporate assets and in the part of the security professional. Moving into 2001 there