The OSE has become a liaison between practitioner and industry in order to communicate to industry vendor organizations the convergence challenges and needs as perceived and experienced by practitioners;
The Convergence Council is comprised of executive security practitioners from both IT and physical security in multiple markets;
The Convergence Council provides thought leadership articulated in white papers, case studies, and the Convergence Roadmap™; helping the industry better understand the end-users needs.
Convergence Summit:
Industry wide initiative to define convergence opportunities for all stakeholders;
Opportunity to understand end-user needs and future directions;
Only major event to tie-in all key associations in a neutral learning environment.
Convergence Roadmap™
The Convergence Roadmap™ is an interactive web-based tool that helps all industry stakeholders define convergence opportunities;
Delivers value through the ability to connect the roadmap to currently available solutions;
Includes future initiatives to build out the roadmap for various markets and stakeholder perspectives.
OSE is ready to submit a project proposal to the SIA standards committee. This effort will utilize industry experts to develop a standard for exchanging Personal Identity Verification (PIV) enrollment data with other systems that manage access based upon the PIV identity. The OSE provides value to this initiative by including OSE thought leaders in combination with members of SIA, ASIS, and the US Government.
*PIV (Personal Identity Verification) | *PACS (Physical Access Control System)
As a Not-for-profit organization, the OSE is well positioned to be the vehicle for Federal, State, and Local Government agencies to request participation and sponsorship of future standards projects that they may otherwise be reluctant to formally bring to industry attention.
