Defy Gravity and Rise Above the Bias of Belief

The physical security industry is not wired like the IT industry. Despite the influences of IT on security, there remains a bias of belief that individual manufacturers should sell a jack-of-all-trades product portfolio. What is accepted and even expected in the IT industry – that a company should make a product family really well, which should also integrate really well with the rest of the products in the industry - is instead the anomaly in the security industry. Perhaps it’s the lack of common integration protocols and standards but it seems like there is this hidden gravitational pull in security to ultimately default to an end-to-end portfolio from individual manufacturers.

Click to read the full Milestone Systems’ SMARTpaper on why the security industry should give up its held long-held focus on end-to-end offerings and move more towards developing open solutions.