The collaboration is a result of increasing demand for a single solution for both IT and physical security and will combine Imprivata's industry leading OneSignT access and authentication management appliance platform with S2's NetBox physical access security solution. The converged solution will deliver an integrated physical/logical access system that will allow companies to use information about a person's physical location as a factor in their authentication and access privileges, delivering more comprehensive infrastructure for greater security and increased cost savings.
"This is a pure example of physical and logical security convergence," said John L. Moss, CEO of S2 Security Corporation. "The solution will go a step further than other offerings by directly linking the currently independent physical and logical access systems' user identities. That organizations will be able to deny remote network access if the user is already physically in the building is just one obvious benefit."
"The integration of the two systems is made possible by the application programming interface offered on the S2 NetBox, and the fact that both systems are third generation network appliances," added Moss. "This new application is possible only because both products share data over the same IP network."