Chapter Summary

Physical security refers to the provision of a safe environment for information processing activities and to the use of the environment to control the behavior of personnel. This chapter has addressed these issues by discussing your need to

  • Know the elements involved in choosing, designing, and configuring a secure site.

  • Know how to secure a facility against unauthorized access and theft of equipment and information.

  • Know environmental and safety measures needed to protect people, the facility, and its resources.

KEY TERMS

  • Area control

  • Clearing

  • Core dump

  • Degauss

  • Degausser

  • Dirty power

  • Dry standpipe system

  • Dumpster diving

  • Erasure

  • Escort

  • Fail-closed

  • Fail-open

  • Lock and key protection system

  • Magnetic flux

  • Magnetic remanence

  • Media

  • Memory stick

  • Open storage ...

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