Chapter 10. Physical Security

OBJECTIVES

Understand the idea of classifying assets and identifying threats and countermeasures that apply to classes.

  • One of the problems with security assessments is becoming overwhelmed by too much detail. One way to help cope is to deal with classes of things rather than individual assets.

Understand some of the most common vulnerabilities and how they affect different asset classes differently. These include

  • Understand general principles that apply to the theft of information and assets.

  • Know the general criteria that apply to the location and construction of facilities.

  • Understand basic methods of controlling physical access to an area.

  • Know the basic issues relating to regulating the power supply for computers ...

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