What exactly falls under “security” can vary from company to company, facility to facility or even department to department. That doesn’t even begin to touch the complexities involved with existing and upcoming regulations.
However, there is one universal truth of security: The more variables you have, the higher the chance is that something will go wrong. And as more and more buildings, equipment and job responsibilities are becoming connected as part of the Internet of Things, the variables are rapidly increasing at an exponential rate.