Inhibiting and driving forces for the digitalization of security systems: security officers’ view on the issue
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Summary, in English
This memo reports on factors that drive and inhibit the digitalization of security systems. The reported factors are as follows:
Technology-push factors
• Need to lower costs on the end-user side, i.e. replacing labour with technology
• Perceived convenience and ease-of-use of digital systems
• Digital products can be connected to the current enterprise network; enabling an expanding set of security features
• Firms holding the IP-capability (IP=Internet Protocol) and not having offered security in the past see business opportunities in adding security solutions to their offerings Inhibiting factors
• Bandwidth and storage limitation and the political ‘battle of the bandwidth’
• Consultants and systems integrators are pushing “old” solutions
• Fragmented industry on the systems integrator side
• Fear of technology challenging current position, i.e. job security, of security officers
• Fear of being ‘locked-in’ to only one supplier of security
Technology-push factors
• Need to lower costs on the end-user side, i.e. replacing labour with technology
• Perceived convenience and ease-of-use of digital systems
• Digital products can be connected to the current enterprise network; enabling an expanding set of security features
• Firms holding the IP-capability (IP=Internet Protocol) and not having offered security in the past see business opportunities in adding security solutions to their offerings Inhibiting factors
• Bandwidth and storage limitation and the political ‘battle of the bandwidth’
• Consultants and systems integrators are pushing “old” solutions
• Fragmented industry on the systems integrator side
• Fear of technology challenging current position, i.e. job security, of security officers
• Fear of being ‘locked-in’ to only one supplier of security
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Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
LUSAX memo series
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Dokumenttyp
Rapport
Förlag
Lusax security informatics
Ämne
- Information Systems, Social aspects
Nyckelord
- demand-side
- technological change
- digitization
- physical security
Status
Published