Ethical Hacking: Techniques, Tools, and Countermeasures, 4th Edition

Physical Area Controls

We’ve already introduced the idea of physically stealing a laptop or mobile device, but many other attacks also depend on physical access. For example, protected information can be extracted from a computer by simply booting the computer from a DVD or USB thumb drive. To do that, you need physical access to the computer. Simply having a few minutes of physical access can allow many attacks that may be very difficult to prevent or detect. To avoid these types of attacks, it is important to protect the physical access to your computers and devices as well as remote access to them.

When looking at the overall security stance of an organization, security professionals have numerous controls to use, each for a different reason. ...