RESEARCH REPORT
2026 State of Cloud Physical Security: Australia & NZ Edition
97% of ANZ organisations not yet fully cloud-managed are planning the move to cloud.
For the 2026 Verkada State of Cloud Physical Security report, Verkada worked with Dynata to survey 1,001 IT and physical security leaders across the United States and Canada. North America sits at the front of the maturity curve: 47% report actively using AI, ahead of the 41% global average — yet the practices are still catching up: with just under half of respondents reporting report comprehensive AI governance or formal metrics for what AI returns.
This report explores which features North American teams have deployed, which ones they hold back, and how AI is changing security roles.
- Executive summary
- Methodology
- The move off-premise is nearly complete
- Where the spending is going
- AI: piloted widely, deployed carefully
- Measurement and governance are already standard
- High trust, selective deployment
- What's slowing AI adoption
- The operational picture
- What to do next
- Appendix: data tables
Click for preview