Physical Security

PHYSICAL SEUREITY:

Physical security can be defined as the protection of personal, hardware, networks, and data from physical events that cause huge damage or loss to an organisation. This include protection from natural disasters, theft, fire, power failure etc. The main aim of physical security is to reduce potential damage and to prevent direct assault before an incident occurs.

The physical security components:

• Obstacles on the way

• Surveillance

• Apprehend Attackers

Obstacles on the way:

By installing obstacles on the way the potential attackers finds it hard to steal. Some of the common obstacles used are locks, fencing, walls, fireproof safes and water sprinklers.

Surveillance:

Surveillance systems are very useful because it provide any presence in the restricted area with notification or alarm. Some of the surveillance systems used are lighting, heat sensors, smoke detectors, intrusion detector, alarms and cameras.

Apprehend Attackers:

Safety measures can be formulated to apprehend the attackers by recovering quickly from accidents, fires or natural disasters.

Some of the most essential security measures that should be taken:

• Lock up the server room

• Set up surveillance

• Make sure that most vulnerable devices are in locked room

• Use rack mount servers

• Give proper protection for work station

• Keep intruders from opening case

• Protect portables

• Pack up backups

• Disable drives

Lock up the server room:

It’s very important to lock the server room even before you turn off them, this is because once the server is hacked then it’s better to lock down the organisation because the company has lost its everything.

Surveillance:

There is a possibility of breaking the locks and stealing the data, so the best way to restrict that is by installing surveillance camera all-round the organisation. So each and every corner could be viewed from a single room and can reduce the man labour.

Make sure that most vulnerable devices are...