SAFE Solution Overview: Streamline and Optimize Your Physical Security Environment

Corporations and executives face growing security risks every day. Not only are employees and business operations affected, but executives themselves are personally accountable. New government regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley, HSPD-12 and HIPAA bring corporate governance to the highest levels. These regulatory compliance challenges along with pressure to reduce operating costs are changing the role of security within an organization. Senior leadership is increasingly expecting security to be a ‘value add’ and not just a ‘sunk cost’ for their organization.
 

Most physical security systems and devices operate in a silo, disconnected with each other and corporate systems having multiple technologies. An identity breach in one location is not trapped and communicated to all security managers of other locations. A forced door entry alarm is not reported to corporate IT department or corporate security in real time. There is no uniform standardized way to run a corporate policy for terminated (or newly hired) employees across all locations. At best, it’s a manual process today dependent on vagaries of management at individual locations. There is no common way of managing and auto-remediation of global physical security incidences.

It is becoming vital for corporations to manage physical security in a unified and integrated way so as to provide ONE POLICY per an operating principle in worldwide locations giving them real-time control and visibility across all facilities. It is only possible when corporations unify all security systems and devices into a common platform such that not only data can be interchanged, but also the contextual information and business processes can be related in real time. This is the charter of the SAFE solution.

The SAFE solution from Quantum Secure helps you to:

Standardize: Most corporations have very location specific, proprietary and disjointed, physical security applications and systems that includes physical access control, video, building lighting, HVAC and fire sensors. To interoperate these systems in congruence of each other, a homogeneous physical security platform is absolutely necessary. This platform enables common policies to be deployed seamlessly once. For example, standard policies enable activation or termination of employee access in all locations in real time, with no manual intervention. Similarly common policies should be in place to manage and respond to physical security incidents and events in a standard way worldwide using a single web console.

Automate: Using a myriad of non-interoperable technologies and vendors results in localized business processes which are manual in nature and do not span end-to-end. The SAFE solution offers a simple drag and drop graphical user interface to develop key business processes and deploy them in any or all locations from a single web console, saving time and operational costs and allowing a dynamic, real-time corporate overview.

Interoperate: Quantum Secure integrates with all physical security systems and make them interoperable amongst each other. It also makes these systems interoperable with IT and HR systems. With such seamless integration, Quantum Secure generates a common language of communications amongst various security domains to ensure end-to-end delivery of policies, business processes and events in a converged security environment.