Because people provide so much of their personal information at hospitals, universities and university-affiliated medical centers, one of the biggest issues affecting these campuses is identity theft.

Physical access and logical access have historically been two separate (and likely unequal) silos within an organization. IT has their password access mechanisms; with some modern improvements.

Depending on your frame of reference, the term “access” conjures thoughts of very different applications. Traditional building security or access control professionals think of physical access. The IT ...

High-level versus low-level. Logical implies a higher view than the physical. Users relate to data logically by data element name; however, the actual fields of data are physically located in sectors ...

Traditionally, physical access has provided authorized admission to buildings, while logical access provides access to networks. Increasingly, organizations are looking to a single platform that may ...

Reasons not to merge physical systems (video surveillance, door-access controls, fire alarms, HVAC and lighting controls and so on) onto an IP-based computer network shared by business: 1. Video ...