Software Connects Disparate Access Control Systems Across All Geographic Locations
NERC compliance requirements in the utilities industry have made it essential to monitor and report on physical access to various facilities, control rooms, substations and critical assets.
UTILCO, a major utility in the SUS, completed a large merger with a like-size utility. As the operations were being combined, UTILCO wanted to have a system that allowed its corporate security managers to utilize job roles to decide who has access to specific facilities and how much area access they should have within those facilities. Additionally, they were going through an end-of-life on their existing access control systems. They faced the challenge of unifying access management across two large employee populations merging into one company.