Reliance High-Tech is seeing a rapid rise in demand for both Physical Security Information Management, or PSIM, and Physical Identity and Access Management, or PIAM, systems. Both are examples of emerging software solutions that are designed to remove inefficiency and manual process within security operations.

PSIM
PSIM is a technology that integrates physical security device management such as CCTV and access control with the automation and reasoning capabilities of computing. PSIM integrates and analyses information from traditional physical security devices and systems, and present the necessary data to automatically or manually resolve the situation in real time.

By combining and analysing the intelligence data provided and managed through PSIM, companies can act immediately on security escalations, plan according to trends and continuously improve security operations.

Operational benefits
PSIM enables you to manage, measure and minimise your exposure to security risk. It is designed to ensure security processes and policies are implemented without technical restrictions. It addresses the need to rapidly change and adapt these security process and policies, especially when managing disparate security systems, sensors and devices.

PIAM
PIAM is a technology that manages and streamlines the management of identity across disparate physical security systems, ensuring they comply to the same standards as your organisation’s IT systems. This enterprise level software enables the security function to integrate disparate physical security systems, automate key processes, such as provisioning and de-provisioning, and simplify control of employees, contractors and other third-party identities. As a software solution, PIAM technology will work with your existing security infrastructure – with no need to replace your existing hardware. By connecting physical security operations closely to their IT infrastructure, organisations can quickly lower operational costs, improve their compliance standing and lower their overall level of risk.

Operational benefits
PIAM software will offer the following benefits:

• Reduction in the cost of running a security operation
• Offers a 100% automated environment for the management of identity ensuring you remain compliant to corporate and industry standards and regulation
• Leverage the existing physical security infrastructure for longer – avoid a ‘rip and replace’ scenario
• Improve security and lower the level of risk to your organisation.

Next steps
Reliance High-Tech partner with world leading PSIM and PIAM vendors to deliver architectures designed to deliver resilience, flexibility and scalability. To find out more about these solutions and the benefits they will bring to your organisation we would suggest an initial consultation with one of our solution architects.