ONE of the biggest buzzwords in the security market in the past few years has been convergence -- the tying together of physical access and logical access technologies which have existed in parallel worlds.
- By Geoff Hogan
- Nov 01, 2006
IN a typical IT environment, heterogeneity is the standard -- in server operating systems, in database platforms and in software applications running on those servers.
- By Richard Hyatt
- Nov 01, 2006
ADVANCEMENTS in removable media, online storage and file sharing have empowered end users to transmit, collect and access data from virtually any location both inside and outside the corporate network.
OVER the years, corporate departments have learned how to increase efficiency and value by leveraging the assets of the corporate IT infrastructure.
- By Bob McCarthy
- Sep 01, 2006
REWIND the clock to the days before the Internet, and enterprise security was a much simpler proposition. Companies then, as now, devised and implemented systems and processes to protect a variety of physical assets against intrusion, theft and tampering.
- By Francois Lasnier
- Jul 01, 2006
- By Jerry Cordasco, Jeff Brummett
- Jun 01, 2006
THE rate of convergence of information technology and physical security continues to accelerate. One point of this convergence has largely been communications networking technology. Many physical security networks have moved from proprietary protocols to open standard Ethernet and TCP/IP.
- By Mance Harmon
- Jun 01, 2006
CONVERGENCE seems to be the latest buzzword in the security industry. When searching the Internet with the terms "security convergence," one will find nearly 29,000 hits. Break the terms up and search individually and that number climbs to more than 200,000.
- By Garry Kolb, CISM
- May 01, 2006
THE development and adoption of removable USB mass storage is truly remarkable. Never before has it been so easy to move gigabytes of information around on a portable device that is small enough to clip onto a keychain.
- By Larry Hamid
- Jan 01, 2006