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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

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Publication/Series

LUSAX memo series

Document type

Report

Publisher

Lusax security informatics

Topic

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Keywords

  • demand-side
  • technological change
  • digitization
  • physical security

Status

Published