“Real words or buzzwords?: NIST declares physical security systems are OT”
In his column this month, Ray Bernard talks extensively about Eagle Eye Networks as an example of “cyber aware application of IT.” It all started in the early 1990s with the introduction of computer software and networking in physical security systems. In 2005, the federal government began classifying physical security systems as IT systems. The Security Industry Association’s Quarterly Technology Update (QTU) of June 2005 stated, “A key concept of this QTU is that U.S.