This post explores how physical security has evolved into a converged discipline with cybersecurity, AI and security operations. It explains why detection alone is not enough and why organizations need to connect people, processes and platforms to build a holistic security model that turns alerts into action.

Physical security and identity security have always governed the same people. They just never operated that way. This article explores why the separation between badge access and digital identity creates one of the most overlooked governance gaps in enterprise security today, and what it takes to close it.