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The Uberization of
Security’s Business Model
Is it time to reduce the total cost of ownership for the security program?
BTy Ed Bacco
he increase in the direct costs to deploy and maintain physical and logical security systems such as access control, video management, communications, cyber defensibility and visitor control combined with the in- crease in the indirect costs needed to operate and sup-
port these systems, has reached a tipping point. Companies large and
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small are now actively seeking a fresh approach to optimizing their physical and logical security operations and managing their risk, while capping or reducing their total cost of ownership (TCO).
What we are now witnessing in the physical security space is very reminiscent of what we saw in the early years of the IT industry where many companies first deployed IT systems and computers and
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