Patent ID: 7752652

Claim:
A security system for integrating security and access for facility protection systems and information systems in which each information system represents a computer system requiring user authorization at connected computers or terminals to access information resources or network environment protected by the information system, said security system comprising: a computer system coupled for communication with one or more facility protection systems and one or more information systems, in which said computer system has memory storing at least user data and access privileges of users to said one or more information systems and said one or more facility protection systems, and said access privileges are capable of being assigned or updated when the user data is added, modified, or deleted in said memory; and said computer system being capable of receiving event data from said one or more facility protection systems and said one or more information systems, and being operative to send action data in accordance with one or more of said received events for directing said one or more facility protection systems or said one or more information system to take one or more actions.