Physical access control systems used to be separated from the rest of an organization's IT department in the past few decades. Furthermore they were usually placed within the security department of an institution. For now, the IT department has successfully came up with an entirely different access system for logical or network access.
However, nowadays that is no longer the standard or preferred access control atmosphere. Communication between the security and IT departments has become more critical than ever due to this physical access control system prototype shift. Not only makes economic sense, but it makes security sense, as well. Not only does it make sense, from a financial aspect, to share the same infrastructure between the security and IT departments, but it makes sense from an economic aspect as well.
The job of physical security in a bank is to protect it physically. On the other hand, it is the job of the Information Technology to virtually protect the security networks of the facility. The security goals of a facility are guaranteed to be achieved through a newly formed partnership that has between the IT and physical security departments. Even though the roles of these two departments are different, their final objective is identical. Through teaming up and sharing the work load they have been able to achieve a remarkable amount of tasks that obviously could not have been accomplished without their combined efforts.