1. An industrial automation historian module, comprising: a module having at least one communications port coupled with a storage medium for collecting historical data from a controller, the module employs an organizational data model which is a hierarchical and heterogeneous structure of organizational units in an enterprise, the module shifts historian functionality to a disparate module at a different level in the organizational data model to efficiently employ system resources, a security service is distributed to the module based in part on at least one of a data model or a directory service; and a backplane component within the module to automatically discover one or more tags within the controller, the one or more tags indicate at least one of significance of data for data collection purposes or security information that is distributed throughout the enterprise.