The proliferation of technologies such as identity management mean more IT managers are having to take responsibility for physical security, according to a panel of leading IT security managers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Speaking at the Business Continuity Expo in London’s Docklands, IT security experts from the Royal Mail Group, Proctor & Gamble and Barclaycard acknowledged that their companies are increasingly merging systems used to authenticate employees’ entry to physical facilities with those used to control access to computing resources.<\/p>\n
“I have worked in a lot of different areas of our company and I have found that physical and IT security are coming together, especially around the area of identity management,” said David Lacey, director of information security, Royal Mail Group.<\/p>\n
David McCaskill, section manager for global security solutions at Proctor & Gamble, explained that the pharmaceutical giant had also integrated its physical and IT authentication systems. Companies have generally treated physical security as the responsibility of the facilities department and computer security as that of IT. But employee information has increasingly become integrated, allowing businesses to link the two systems, Steve Hunt, an analyst with Forrester Research, said in a recent report.<\/p>\n
“Locks, cameras, entry systems, and even guard desks will be upgraded to work with the same computing systems that control computer and network sign-on, identity management and security incident management,” Hunt wrote.<\/p>\n
Twice as much will be spent on such integration this year compared with 2004, reaching $1.1bn in Europe and the United States, according to Forrester.<\/p>\n
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