2014 Digital Yearbook of Homeland Security Awards
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GSN <strong>2014</strong> <strong>Digital</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Homeland</strong> <strong>Security</strong> <strong>Awards</strong> Recipients<br />
Vendors <strong>of</strong> Physical <strong>Security</strong> Products and Solutions<br />
Alert Enterprise –<br />
<strong>2014</strong> Finalist<br />
<strong>Awards</strong> Category:<br />
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Best Platform for Physical and Logical Access<br />
Name <strong>of</strong> Nominated Product, Service,<br />
or Program:<br />
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Enterprise Guardian<br />
Reason this entry deserves to win:<br />
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Companies are faced with the daunting task <strong>of</strong> reconciling<br />
employee, contractor and visitor lists against HR that are working fine. AlertEnterprise has developed a<br />
resorting to cost prohibitive replacement <strong>of</strong> systems<br />
Management Systems, Manual Contractor acquisition solution to bridge the security gaps across these silos <strong>of</strong><br />
processes and the list <strong>of</strong> electronic access cards that are Physical and Logical systems with a Converged Identity<br />
actually active. Add to that the complexity <strong>of</strong> monitoring Governance and Management solution that extends<br />
the system access that they have in enterprise and legacy beyond IT and enables you to manage and control user<br />
applications. Organizations are living with the risk that access risks across the entire enterprise. As an example<br />
terminated employees or contractors still have physical<br />
access to facilities. As companies grow and acquire is an Operator who works in the Transmission Control<br />
use case for this capability, let us consider Tom. Tom<br />
other facilities and merge with other companies, Access<br />
Control systems from multiple vendors need to be Tom must complete certain on-going training require-<br />
Room for a regulated Utility company we call Utilco.<br />
accounted for. A single command and control console ments to maintain his license to operate. Utilco has a<br />
that can consolidate identities and access rules across Learning Management System (LMS) in place that is<br />
multi-vendor badging systems can eliminate the overlap, linked to the company HR system. AlertEnterprise is<br />
cost burden and manual processes needed to centrally integrated with the HR systems, the Identity Management<br />
as well as the Badge Access system. During the<br />
manage physical access across all these systems without<br />
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