Industry Perspectives

Risk mitigation and security are fundamental challenges for organizations. Central to an organization’s mission is to protect their customers, constituents (including employees, citizens, students, and faculty), and company assets. The increasing convergence of risk management, physical security and technology is enabling greater incident prevention and analysis; and quicker decision making, deployment and response across the organization. The acquisition and deployment of security solutions will increasingly require an understanding of how protecting the organization’s business operations functions within the IT infrastructure.

Convergence between physical security and the IT infrastructure allows for the integration of legacy and new technology solutions, requires seamless implementation across new and existing enterprise systems, and dictates the profile for the successful solution provider of the future. The implementation of security technology now more closely conforms to existing evaluative business models within the organization, and improves the organization’s ability to better quantify the return on investment for their security solutions. Thus, the integration of physical security into all elements of the operation is becoming both a requirement and a substantial value to the organization.