As the center has expanded into one of the country’s premier medical centers, its security needs have also grown accordingly. It has an extremely demanding security environment, with thousands of patients and visitors, and sensitive laboratory research being performed.

“We have to protect a very large academic medical center with both a teaching hospital and research labs,” said Kevin Tuohey, executive director of operations and public safety for the center. “We have an intentional design that doesn’t allow any one system to control all other systems. We are looking at how to move into a higher level of integration in a way that we are comfortable with and which builds in redundancy.”