In 2005, newly elected Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann assembled the city's public safety and IT officials together to develop an integrated security program, forming a public safety oversight committee, chaired by chief information officer Gordon Bruce. "Anything that has to deal with security; anytime the issue of security came up, we put it on the list," Bruce says, in an interview with Information Security Media Group's GovInfoSecurity.com. "We took an entire, enterprise approach."

Bruce spoke with GovInfoSecurity.com's Eric Chabrow about the benefits of linking governmental physical and IT security.