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What is Physical Identity & Access Management?
Physical Identity & Access Management
Well beyond simple access control and much more than a point solution to solve for a single issue, Physical Identity & Access Management provides a unified approach towards physical security management. This approach uses policy-driven software to seamlessly manage the entire lifecycle of identities, their physical access and their correlation with physical security events in a multi-stakeholder environment while providing real-time compliance.
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We view Physical Identity & Access Management as the perfect complement to the practice of identity & access management in the logical arena, whereas IT security practitioners authenticate, authorize and entitle users to have access to various enterprise applications, from databases, network authentication, ERP systems and more.
In the physical security world, our SAFE software allows this same approach to identity lifecycle management. Users—both trusted and un-trusted—are authenticated, authorized and entitled to a variety of different parts of the physical security and building management infrastructure, from actual building, areas or even zones.
But beyond access, Physical Identity & Access Management takes into account all aspects of identity lifecycle management across the physical security infrastructure. Issues such as:
- Which identity is where and why? Who authorized them and for how long?
- Are third-party contractors, temporary workers and other “un-trusted” identities properly on- and off-boarded and tracked?
- Are visitors always treated like identities and associated with an internal employee or sponsor?
- Can my system provide physical access based upon risk profile of an identity? Or risk profile of a location?
- How can we achieve training/special requirements-based access control?
- Can we automate the provisioning/return process of metal keys or other physical assets?
- Can we correlate identities w/alarms, events & situations?
- Can we connect our physical security infrastructure to our HR system/LDAP to PCAS in real-time?
- Can we automate key policies and procedures related to physical access to streamline our compliance reporting efforts
- Can we utilize tools to effortlessly view our entire physical security infrastructure, by day, week, month and quarter, by building, door and device?
Quantum Secure is driving an innovative change in managing physical security—by embracing things that have brought success to the IT world: industry standards, open protocols, interoperability among manufacturers, short product cycles, commoditization of hardware, and license/service based products. Based on these proven security principles, our SAFE Suite is designed to reduce the time required to deploy security policies and update them after deployment, make corporate security more reliable and lower the total cost required to manage multi-vendor physical security. Using policy-based management, it enables a collaborative approach between business entities and the security organization.
With a solid approach to Physical Identity & Access Management, physical security practitioners can closely connect their physical and logical security infrastructures, quickly lowering operational costs, improving their compliance standing and lowering their overall level of risk.
