As mentioned in previous classes, the insider threat is the biggest threat to deal with in the IT field. Today, I will talk about the various ways the physical security of your systems can be administered.
Depending on the layout of your facility and how much you are willing to spend on security will determine how tight your security can be made. Let's first look at a few ways that this can be accomplished. A few methods would be guards physically controlling access utilizing access lists to mechanical or electro-mechanical locks on the doors to gain entry.
Each of these by themselves can be defeated with some effort, but combining them creates a different dynamic called layered security. This term will be used quite often throughout most discussions about security.
If you have the luxury of a big budget for security, you can tighten it further with security cameras, biometric scanners, and stand-off areas to gain access to sensitive areas. There has to be a point that a security specialist has to accept the security in-place is good enough otherwise, the budget for security alone could become too large.
Any one of these methods is better to have than nothing at all as you tend to see in a lot of businesses.
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