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Final Thoughts • Chapter 7 255■■■■■■■Begin thinking about how the elements of the security system can also be used toaccomplish other business tasks, such as video surveillance for marketing and radiofrequency identification (RFID) for performance enhancement and tracking.Don’t focus on just the insider or external threat, but rather treat them as coequaland sometimes cooperative threats.Secure the entire business process, from the supply chain to the delivery of products,not just the physical or informational assets.The security system can never be static, but must always adapt to evolving threats.Take advantage of the changes that convergence will force in the organization tobuild an integrated risk assessment and risk mitigation function.Pay attention to the new risks to the security system itself that convergence willintroduce, particularly where IT and networks form the foundation of newcapabilities.Worry a lot about buying or building systems that are based on proprietary ratherthan standards-based technology.Final Thoughts from Dan DunkelSecurity as a profession is taking a quantum leap forward in tandem with the technicaladvancements of the twenty-first century. We will look back a decade hence and realizethese initial stages of physical and logical security convergence truly changed and repositionedan age-old industry. A new era that redefines global risk will rely on a new generationof security professional to establish the trusted environment required to succeed in aglobal community. Collaboration will become the foundation for the next generation ofsecurity practitioners to create new innovations concerning the protection of physical, electronic,and human assets.Dan’s Rules of the Road■■■Security and convergence are concepts that must be examined separately to gain anunderstanding of their combined business value.Enterprise security policy integrated within an IT governance framework offers thebest protection of global assets and human resources.The security professional of the future understands the impact of technical innovationand global business operations from both an internal and an externalperspective.