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Cybersecurity Essentials
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Cybersecurity Essentials

by Charles J. Brooks, Christopher Grow, Philip Craig, Donald Short
October 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
784 pages
17h 34m
English
Sybex
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CHAPTER 2Understanding Access-Control and Monitoring Systems

If you skipped reading the “Introduction,” you might wonder why there’s an entire Part I devoted to infrastructure security. However, as the “Introduction” pointed out, without physical security there is no security. Infrastructure security operation and management is based on three basic types of subsystems: access-control and monitoring systems (covered in this chapter), video surveillance systems (covered in Chapter 3), and intrusion-detection and reporting systems (covered Chapter 4). In this chapter, you’ll learn to:

  • Understand the application of the following concepts of physical security: access control, physical barriers, and biometrics
  • Differentiate between authentication ...
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