Patent ID: 8108914
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: G06F,G06K,G07C,H04L

Abstract:
1. A converged physical and logical security management system comprising: a unique identifier having associated therewith information usable for authentication and authorization to control access decisions for a physical area and logical access to one or more of a computer system, computer network or network resource, the information including at least two configuration options; and a security management computer including at least one microprocessor, a data store and connectivity modules, the security management computer scalable via one or more connections to one or more additional security management computers, the security management computer determining the access decisions for the physical area and the logical access to the one or more of the computer system, the computer network or the network resource, the security management computer connected to one or more access control readers and capable of communicating with the one or more access control readers in the access control readers' standard protocol, wherein the security management computer also includes a directory service that is used with the data store and the configuration options to make the access decisions, wherein: for an access request to the physical area, a first authentication and authorization utilize a first of the at least two configuration options within the data store of the security management computer for a physical access decision, and for logical access, a second, separate, authentication and authorization utilize a second of the at least two configuration options within the directory service of the security management computer for a logical access decision.