Scaling Security for Growing Enterprises

Centralized platforms make the most of collected data

Enterprise businesses in the fastest-growing sectors may need to rethink their approach to franchise security. While growth fuels business success, it also presents major security challenges as teams work to keep pace with an enlarged footprint.

As businesses expand their operations to new sites, security teams must consider whether their existing portfolio of security solutions fits the needs of multiple locations. Adding more sites requires installing and managing additional surveillance, access control, alarm systems, and other devices, which means a larger influx of data for security teams to analyze.

What steps can enterprise security leaders take to ensure that their organizations have the right tools to maintain security over an increasing number of locations?

Know the Challenges

When enterprises expand, they add new sites, entry points, people and assets to monitor and secure. While there are many aspects of an organization’s security posture to consider when choosing a set of security solutions, an all-too-often overlooked factor to expanding security platforms is data. As an organization’s portfolio of security solutions grows, so does the amount of data it generates. This presents new challenges for security teams managing multiple locations.

The data collected from video surveillance systems can be helpful in many ways, but only if the right systems are in place to help operators make sense of it. Security teams can use surveillance data to gain insights about business processes, a bird’s-eye view of operations and a deeper understanding of incident management. As operations expand to new locations, though, it becomes more challenging to keep up.

By integrating disparate security systems into one streamlined platform, security personnel can unlock the holistic visibility they need to identify, assess and defend against emerging threats. Beyond just security, enterprises can convert correlated security data into actionable insights that improve operations by tracking customer activity patterns and employee productivity to determine where resources can be best allocated.

Security teams often spread themselves thin when updating and maintaining systems across long distances. Integrations are essential to any successful security strategy, but teams must ensure consistency and efficiency across systems for expanding enterprises. This becomes increasingly complex as new sites and systems are added. Additionally, enterprises may use various systems at different locations, often installed at different times by different vendors, which can further complicate the integration process.

Centralize, Correlate and Scale

When it comes to securing an expanding enterprise, scalability is key. Rather than having additional locations manage their security individually, centralized security management platforms can provide organizations with a comprehensive view of each site’s security posture with correlated data streams and boundless potential for integrations.

A centralized platform allows teams to streamline security data across locations. This transforms how they monitor and respond to potential threats by improving situational awareness and reducing inefficiencies and response times. Additionally, giving security operators the ability to monitor and manage multiple locations from one interface allows organizations to add more systems and sites in the future, giving them the power to scale their security operations as the enterprise grows.

As enterprise security requirements evolve, an organization’s security portfolio must be able to upgrade or expand to accommodate new locations. Centralized systems play a significant role in allowing for future expansion. A security platform that leaves room for future integrations will enable organizations to add new solutions to their portfolio, meaning their security infrastructure can be easily modified to meet new demands, ensuring ongoing protection as requirements grow and change.

Expand Without Limits

For a modern enterprise to be future-ready, it needs a security portfolio capable of changing and growing with it. Scalability and flexibility are not optional; they’re essential for maximizing security investments and ensuring long-term success. With a centralized platform, every location is connected, and every risk is accounted for, so businesses can move forward confidently, knowing their security system is built to grow alongside them.

As enterprises expand, a centralized, scalable approach to security ensures personnel can maintain a holistic view of multiple locations, integrate new solutions, streamline operations and respond effectively without being overwhelmed by data. This enables security teams to take action when and where it matters most, whether responding to unauthorized access, preventing data theft or addressing physical threats at any location.