In the Specifying Technology session on the Security Management Stage 2 Course, 28 June – 9 July 2010, (for details click here or contact Janet), much emphasis is placed on how to create dynamic return on security investment by selecting technical security solutions that have payback into other areas of the business. For example IP CCTV which can serve as the backbone for corporate-wide voice over Internet telephony services, the single card initiative which, by allowing staff to securely access their own personal records via the network, can dramatically reduce internal telephone enquiry calls and associated manpower etc.
RFID is one such technology which, while making rapid inroads into security, also has many other non-security applications. Read the following article for an example:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/3022/1/1/