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    Physical security involves protecting people, property, and assets from harm. It has grown into a $30 billion industry. Physical security is equally important as cybersecurity, as an attacker could remove storage media from a storage room despite any digital protections. Physical security is becoming more closely connected to IT security as technologies like AI and IoT advance. Rigorous physical security controls should deter external threats while internal measures reduce risks from insiders. Many companies focus too much on front door security and not security for the entire building.

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    Physical security involves protecting people, property, and assets from harm. It has grown into a $30 billion industry. Physical security is equally important as cybersecurity, as an attacker could remove storage media from a storage room despite any digital protections. Physical security is becoming more closely connected to IT security as technologies like AI and IoT advance. Rigorous physical security controls should deter external threats while internal measures reduce risks from insiders. Many companies focus too much on front door security and not security for the entire building.

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    Physical security definition

    Physical security is the protection of people, property, and physical assets from
    actions and events that could cause damage or loss. Though often overlooked in
    favor of cybersecurity, physical security is equally important. And, indeed, it has
    grown into a $30 billion industry . All the firewalls in the world can’t help you if an
    attacker removes your storage media from the storage room.

    [ Learn what you need to know about defending critical infrastructure  . | Get the latest from
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    The growing sophistication of physical security through technologies such as artificial
    intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) means IT and physical security are
    becoming more closely connected, and as a result security teams need to be
    working together to secure both the physical and digital assets.

    Why physical security is important


    At its core, physical security is about keeping your facilities, people and assets safe
    from real-world threats. It includes physical deterrence, detection of intruders, and
    responding to those threats.

    While it could be from environmental events, the term is usually applied to keeping
    people – whether external actors or potential insider threats – from accessing areas
    or assets they shouldn’t. It could be keeping the public at large out of your HQ, on-
    site third parties from areas where sensitive work goes on, or your workers from
    mission-critical areas such as the server room.

    Physical attacks could be breaking into a secure data center, sneaking into restricted
    areas of a building, or using terminals they have no business accessing. Attackers
    could steal or damage important IT assets such as servers or storage media, gain
    access to important terminals for mission critical applications, steal information via
    USB, or upload malware onto your systems.

    Rigorous controls at the outermost perimeter should be able to keep out external
    threats, while internal measures around access should be able to reduce the
    likelihood of internal attackers (or at least flag unusual behavior).

    One of the most common errors a company makes when approaching physical
    security, according to David Kennedy, CEO of penetration testing firm TrustedSec, is
    to focus on the front door. “They'll put all of the security in the front door; surveillance
    cameras, security guards, badge access, but what they don't focus on is the entire
    building of the whole.”

    Reference

    https://www.csoonline.com/article/3324614/what-is-physical-security-how-to-keep-your-facilities-and-
    devices-safe-from-on-site-attackers.html

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