  The implications of the discovery of a scalar Higgs boson at the LHC with a
mass of approximately 125 GeV are summarised in the context of the Standard
Model of particle physics with its unique scalar boson and of its most
celebrated new physics extension, the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model or
MSSM, in which the Higgs sector is extended to contain three neutral and two
charged scalar bosons. Discussed are the implications from the measured mass,
the production and decay rates of the observed particle and, in the MSSM, from
the constraints in the search for the heavier Higgs states. The perspectives
for Higgs and new physics searches at the next LHC upgrades as well as at
future hadron and lepton colliders are then briefly summarized.
