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Suggested Solutions

If maintenance activity is fairly low, centralization might be the best approach. However, if maintenance activity is high and fragmented, decentralization may offer better and more efficient security administration.

You can also centralize now and decentralize later. Many installations successfully use the central security administration approach and later decentralize the function wherever maintenance requirements make it practical. This is often a more sensible initial approach since it allows the central level staff to become the security system experts before they are required to train and monitor administrators and staff on a decentralized level.