There was a time when all the company security director had to worry about was checking door fastenings monitoring CCTV.

There was a time when all the company security director had to worry about was checking door fastenings monitoring CCTV, and other facets of physical security. Those were the days before the bourgeoning of large corporate computer networks and before the ne for a security theory to be compatible with those networks. Those were the days before Windows NT

Security directors shortly found themselves knee-deep in IT. on the same level as computer personnel are being drawn into the realm of security, traditional security directors are seeing the ne to be far better vers in the language and skills of the IT world.

As corporate networks have draw near to be dominated by regularitys such as Microsoft Windows NT (and its successor Windows 2000) there has been increasing demand for security plans that can run on the same platform. Security equipment companies have worked to convenient the demand.

Company IT users are increasingly