Practically all facility-based physical security systems, devices and services have operated in silos that are very loosely connected with each other, observed Ajay Jain, president and CEO of Quantum Secure, San Jose, Calif. No doubt, obtaining a comprehensive view of physical security operations for all corporate locations worldwide is very challenging. But according to Jain, “the problem further gets exasperated with localized security processes, ad-hoc event handling, countless alarms and lack of holistic reporting from multi-vendor proprietary systems. Moreover, data sets originating from these locations are flat and disjointed. For example, alarm IDs, door names, access levels, card formats, spatial hierarchy and surveillance camera configurations are often represented differently in each facility.”
What’s now emerging are enterprise class applications that centrally manage and orchestrate corporate security based on business policies and rules.