Security Squared has a nice four part article on how Identity and Access Management is rapidly converging with Logical-Physical access control systems (PACS). Think about tying your badge access control (perimeter, interior, etc) to your AD account; AD account is disabled and your badge is immediately cut off. These are capabilities Ensynch has recently acquired through a partnership that I hope to see announced very soon. Now you'll be able to completely tie-in access control across all aspects of IT and if you factor in the request management capabilities of FIM 2010 then you can begin to conceptualize a solution that would allow for complete paperless automation (with approvals) of physical access control requests! Combine that with PKI and data protection initiatives (like RMS) and you can begin to realize solutions within everyone's budget – not just the big enterprises.
This isn't some emerging technology, the software and hardware exists today and is fully available, we are only just recently bridging the gulf between IAM and PACS solutions providers to offer a unified and converged solution. Contact me if this interests you.
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