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Convergence of Physical and IT Security is Becoming a Necessity

William Jackson writes on GCN.com:

Physical attacks increasingly will be accompanied by cyber attacks that will magnify the impact of the assault or hamper response, according to analysts with the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit.

"In the future, we will see that cyber vulnerabilities will determine where physical attacks will take place," Scott Borg, director and chief economist of the US-CCU said Wednesday at the GovSec conference being held in Washington.

Combining physical and IT security will be necessary to provide adequate protection to the nation's critical infrastructure, he said. "Physical security is becoming utterly dependent on cyber security," Borg said. “And cyber security is becoming utterly dependent on physical security. Handling these things separately is not going to be possible for very much longer and do a good job.”

The Cyber Consequences Unit is a government-funded independent research organization that looks at real world vulnerabilities and consequences of security breaches. Much of the research is done with on-site examinations of facilities.

posted by Fergie @ 5/09/2007 11:07:00 AM