Spending to Fund Convergence Rises
Study suggests converged security projects will get more money
By CSO Contributor
April 15, 2005 — CSO — Security projects that require the cooperation of IT security and physical security teams are catching on, according to a Forrester Research study. The research group asked 60 end user organizations in Canada, Europe and the United States about their spending plans, and asked industry experts and vendors their expectations about the demand for products or services related to the convergence of IT and physical security.
Researchers put these "convergence projects" into five categories: large-scale projects (at organizations with at least 60,000 employees and contractors); access control projects that require the merging of physical and logical access systems (think of a building and computer network access control system that outfits employees with their own ID card); projects performed jointly by IT and physical security staff (the installation of an IP-based surveillance network, for example); projects that require smaller amounts of collaboration (such as for data center security); and projects in the public sector (such as border control systems and law enforcement initiatives).
Spending on Converged Security Projects (per year in millions)
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Source: Forrester, "Trends 2005: Security Convergence Gets Real"
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