When it comes to smart buildings it is all too easy to collect so many “toys” (technology products and solutions) that you can’t possibly use them all at once. With children this problem is easily solved. Simply put them away for a while and when you bring them back out they will be “new” and interesting again. But with security solutions this is not feasible — you paid for it and it solves a problem you had. So how do you maximize it?
“What we found happens a lot is we end up with a lot of ‘things,’ said Heather Warner, head of global security operations technology at Amazon at a recent Securing New Ground conference held in October in New York City. One of three panelists for “Security Leaders Speak! Insights from Top Security Practitioners” Warner and the others lamented the challenges they faced with so much technology. “There are a lot of applications and different ways to slice a bigger problem,” she added. “I am looking to not do that. I want to make it very, very easy for our users to get exactly what they want by going to fewer places.”