A&S International featured Convergint’s Executive Vice President Mike Mathes in an article discussing the growth of the North American security industry. Written by William Pao, this article included insight from Mathes regarding the predicted industry growth and how system integrators are linking physical and logical access to improve cybersecurity.

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“We’re still seeing good solid growth. Everything that we’re seeing from our customers, with regard to their spending, plans and the things they want to do, indicates that they’ve got great roadmaps.”

~ Mike Mathes, Executive VP of Convergint Technologies.

“A client could choose that to get root access to an important server is to be physically present in one of their buildings. This could mean that somebody could tunnel in through a network connection and pretend to be onsite. So by linking the physical and logical access we can say they need to be in that building, in that particular room before they have any access to it. This now creates a whole new level of complexity for the hacker that wants to get in.”

~ Mike Mathes, Executive VP of Convergint Technologies.

About Mike Mathes

Mike Mathes currently serves as Executive Vice President for Convergint Technologies. One of Convergint’s founding members, he opened the Los Angeles and San Francisco locations for Convergint 15 years ago. In his current role, he is responsible for Advanced Solutions and cybersecurity strategies, in addition to overseeing Convergint’s western locations. Prior to Convergint, Mike held several positions at Johnson Controls over a 15-year career there.