Digital Security: An Opportunity Waiting to Happen
For many years now the convergence of physical and logical security has progressed from concept to reality. The security cycle has evolved into a continuous model of technology adoption, financial justification, and new security policies to address new threats.
The macro trends for today’s security integrators to understand are twofold:
(1) We live in a digital world of systems and networks, and (2) this digital world makes it much easier for cyber crime to flourish. Security integrators must step up to more responsibilities. The silo deployment days are over. As the challenges get bigger so does the market. The cyber crime problem is massive, and targets digital assets. This critical issue is much broader than protecting data in the IT department. We must recognize that cyber security protections play a wider role in securing both the business operations and the corporate brand. One common element is the security integrator’s role in integrating a digital environment to enable the larger security policy to be effective. Digital crime makes the emerging cyber security market a logical extension for physical integrators. Why not leverage cyber (digital) security protections from the perimeter inbound?