This deals with physical device access, data center access, server access, and network access. If an unauthorized person gains access to the equipment owned by an Enterprise, they can gain access to all the data that is present in it.
As we have seen in the previous sections, when an operating system is running, we are able to protect the resources by leveraging the security features of the operating system. When an intruder gains physical access to the devices (or even decommissioned servers), they can connect these devices to another operating system that's in their control and access all the data that is present on our servers.
Care must be taken when we decommission servers, as there are ways in which data that's written ...
