physical security bridge to IT security (PHYSBITS)

The Physical Security Bridge to IT Security (PHYSBITS), developed by the Open Security Exchange ( OSE), is a vendor-neutral approach to collaboration between physical security and IT security that supports all enterprise risk management requirements.

In current approaches, physical security focuses on assets, systems, personnel and structures and their potential threats, whereas network and information security focuses on the authorization ofusers, their access rights to resources, services and applications to ensure continuous business activities. Physbits provides the link between these two security-related aspects of physical and information security and meets this focus through the Physbits framework. The framework is based on realized cases and those that have been proven in practice.

Physbits can be used to define web services and other application-oriented interfaces.