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Analysis: Physical/Logical Security Convergence: Page 2 of 30

Physical and logical security staffs, both tasked with protecting enterprise assets, are seeing increased technology and budgetary overlaps. Now, technological shifts, budgetary realities and a major government initiative are adding
November 17, 2006

The Process

An employee ID card is virtually worthless if no one verified that the person requesting the card is, in fact, who she says she is. This illustrates a fundamental problem with physical-logical convergence: It extends beyond technology to establishing and integrating business processes--in this case, a validation procedure.

Melding business processes with IT functions is an ongoing struggle, compounded here by the addition of a third party, the facilities security group, and the fact that there's no consensus on what, exactly, it means to converge physical and logical access-control systems.

Most companies that have taken on the integration challenge are breaking the big-picture goal--holistic convergence--into manageable bites. The most popular convergence projects we've seen are:

» Use of a single ID card for physical and logical access

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