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Article: What's the BUZZ for 2009?(Feature)
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- Security Dealer & Integrator
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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What's the BUZZ for 2009?
By Deborah L. O'Mara
Critical sectors carve out convergence
Physical Security & IT Convergence
Fragmented, siloed and proprietary--is the industry permanently tethered to these words?
Time will tell. Driving the move to converged physical security is the access control sector, particularly the Department of Homeland Security's Physical Access Control Systems. The Internet and IP-based video and other products operating on the network are further fueling integration.
Tyco's Peter Boriskin said regulations like the Transportation Workers Identification Credentials and Homeland Security ...