Telecom facilities are home to a number of critical and highly valuable assets, and given the sensitive nature of a large number of these locations, it’s vital that telecoms be able to recognize potential threats as soon as possible. Additionally, a number of mergers and acquisitions within the telecom industry have shined a light on the need for future-proof solutions that offer the flexibility of incorporating multiple systems from multiple manufacturers to facilitate growth without requiring costly rip-and-replace projects.
These factors highlight telecoms’ need for strong physical access and identity management to enhance overall security, which has traditionally been reactive in nature, enabling response to issues or events after they have occurred. Unfortunately, by that time, any negative impact has already been felt. And while there has been significant progress with integrating a variety of systems to establish more robust security platforms, until now there has been little progress integrating operations systems like vendor/contractor management, visitor management, HR, compliance and others. As a result, there have been a number of security breaches for which enough relevant data had been stored within multiple disparate systems and sources to warn of a possible risk; however, with no way to extrapolate actionable intelligence from that data, the risk went undetected until it was too late.