Rhombus’ Diego Oliveira: Agencies Should Treat Physical Security as an IT System

Rhombus’ Diego Oliveira: Agencies Should Treat Physical Security as an IT SystemRhombus VP Diego Oliveira has said physical security should be managed as part of an agency’s IT infrastructureOliveira points to cloud-managed platforms and edge analytics as key shifts for agenciesCompliance signals for government use include NDAA Section 889-compliant hardware and SOC 2 Type II alignmentDiego Oliveira, vice president of corporate development and strategy at Rhombus, said agencies should stop managing physical security as a separate system and instead treat it as part of their core IT infrastructure. “My answer is to stop treating physical security as a separate stack. It’s an IT system now and should be held to the same standard,” Oliveira wrote in an article published on Carahsoft.com. What Makes a Physical Security Platform Compliant? What Shifts Are Reshaping Physical Security for Agencies?