10 Physical Security

DOI: 10.1201/b11355-10

If you want total security, go to prison.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A critical, yet often overlooked aspect of information security is physical security. Entire teams of information technology specialists are employed to monitor networks, configure routers and firewalls, and otherwise provide technical, software-related protection for the networks they serve. These measures are not simply a good idea; they are necessary. More than just technical prowess and digital know-how is needed to provide protection of an entire network infrastructure successfully, though. In order to thoroughly protect all of the data contained on the computers, as well as all of the systems in the network, the computers themselves ...

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