As schemes become more integrated.

As schemes become more integrated, security professionals sometimes find themselves evaluating whether to use their companies' computer networks to transmit security method information. Sometimes the choice proceeds down to using an existing network or establishing an expensive security-only network that operates separate from - and largely parallel to - the company's management information scheme (MIS). Becoming part of the company's information network moves obvious advantages in sharing information with other departments. The proces of security plan integration could lead you straight to the door of the MIS director.

further if managing security information becomes an MIS function, the security department could forfeit some of its hands-on quality. so is the warning from Mike Meier, senior consultant with Schiff & Associates, Bastrop, Texas, who spoke at Casi-Rusco's 1997 Customer talk and Workshop May 5-8 in Palm Beach, Fla.

When security information joins the pour of information on ...