The convergence of logical and physical security is a natural step in the scheme of progressive thinking among foremost technologists. It's also the direction in which corporations are moving. The reason is simple-convergence is the most efficient and expedient way to perform a variety of tasks related to the security of a company's physical and logical elements. In years past, information technology (IT) and physical security coexisted within a company as separate departments with entirely different missions. The former traditionally seeks to protect a corporation's network, individual personal computers (PCs) and the copper/fiber communication infrastructure that carries data from one end of the building to the other. The latter seeks to secure the physical elements of the corporation, such as structures, parking lots and more.
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