Physical-Logical Convergence
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Physical-Logical Convergence

Combined Session
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:30—12:30
Location: Helios

Implementing A Converged Physical and Logical IT Security Strategy

Satel J. Naik
Satel J. Naik
City College Coventry
Ralph Seinsche
Ralph Seinsche
HID Global
Ralph Seinsche has more than 16 years Experience in IT Systems Management, IT Security and Physical Security. He worked in Sales and Marketing for leading Companies as Novell, Intel and HID Global...

Trends in Convergence

One of the most importand trends in security is convergence, the merging of physical and logical access to corporate facilities. Therefore, new-generation equipment and software combine the monitoring and management of physical and computer security. As a consequence, employees will use only one employee ID to access the buildings and equipment.

This requires a holistic approach to information security - analysing risk and security across the organisation to ensure that users follow policy across both physical and network access. This converged approach to security addresses issues that cannot be met by physical security or IT departments working in silos, but instead has them working together.

In a converged security world, the over-riding concern is that users conform to the organisation’s overall security policies - examples of this can include preventing ‘tailgating’, where users don’t badge into the organisation’s building access system and follow other members of staff into the premises. Converged security systems can also be used as part of an overall deprovisioning strategy - if a user’s IT access privileges are tied to their building card, taking this card away from them can effectively stop an ex-employee getting back into systems after they have left the premises.

Main points of this panel discussion:

 

Dominic Fedronic
Dominic Fedronic
ActivIdentity
Dominic Fedronic is Chief Technology Officer at ActivIdentity and is responsible for leading and directing all technical decisions regarding the company's products and services. Since joining the...
Dr. Hans-Jörg Kremer
Dr. Hans-Jörg Kremer
Peak Solution GmbH
Dr. Hans-Jörg Kremer is active in the IT since 1989. As a consultant, project manager, business unit director and member of the board he supported a lot of medium-sized enterprises and large,...
Steve Neville
Steve Neville
Entrust
David Ting
David Ting
Imprivata
Named one of Infoworld's Top 25 CTO's of 2006, David has more than 20 years of experience in developing advanced imaging software and systems for high security, high-availability systems. Prior to...
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