Patent ID: 7380279

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 comprising: one or more facility protection systems in which at least one of said facility protection system controls user access to areas of a facility; at least one information system which controls users' access to said information system; a computer server system coupled for communication with said facility protection systems and said information system, in which said computer server system further comprises a database for storing at least security information for users and access privileges of users to said information system and one or more of said facility protection systems; said facility protection systems and said information system each having means for sending to said computer system one or more events occurring at their respective system; and said computer system having means, responsive to said one or more events from one or more of said facility protection systems and said information system, for directing one or more of said facility protection systems and said information system to take one or more actions in accordance with said one or more events, and said directing means is capable of directing one or more of said facility protection systems to take one or more actions in accordance with said one or more events when received from said information system.