Future of Physical Security. Extending converged digital capabilities across logical & physical environments
The threat landscape is changing. The digital revolution has transformed the world in a multitude of positive ways—but it has inadvertently created new threats. Social media
and messaging platforms are unintentionally providing new ways to plan and orchestrate mass-casualty incidents. Over half of these active threat incidents occur in the workplace. Coupled with the escalation of catastrophic climate events such as hurricanes, security teams are facing mounting challenges.
Combating these threats requires intelligent applications that can rapidly sift through overwhelming amounts of data that cannot be processed at the human level. Recent developments in artificial intelligence and signals processing can help security catch up. As tools become more sophisticated and readily available, security organizations must adopt new practices and capabilities. Failure to transform will increase the likelihood of becoming a target.
In 2018, Microsoft and Accenture conducted a “Future of Physical Security” survey. 200 senior physical security leaders across multiple industries participated. We found that although security leaders see the opportunity to enhance risk management with digital capabilities, the industry is at various levels of maturity, and at worst is a decade behind. Respondents identified “reactive threat management” and “intuition-led decision-making based on subjectivity” as the two leading challenges facing physical security operations today. These challenges—operating reactively and improving decision-making—make it difficult to be proactive. This puts your people, brand and reputation at risk.
