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Integrated Security & IT

A Two-Person Job - March 2005 Issue @ SecurityInfoWatch.com

All systems are converging on IT - phone systems, video, media and now security.

It makes sense. Security is about managing a variety of data inputs; no different than any other IT application.

Back in 2002 at the ISC West convention there were only a couple of IP based products out there. Today almost every security manufacturer has IP enabled products.

Unfortunately the technology has adapted much faster than the internal political barriers have come down. In a typical organization in 2000 there were several distinct infrastructures including the IT system, telecom, security and building management. Each of these infrastructures had a seperate budget and management.

In the near future all of these will share the same IT infrastructure. This has huge efficiency benefits but there will have to be a lot of organizational changes to match the technical improvements.

We address a lot of these challenges in our latest whitepaper revision on Infrastructure Security - When the Billy Clubs & Hardhats Meet the Bits & Bytes Team.

Posted by David Brown on December 24, 2005 12:31 PM|Permalink

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