To defend against many different kinds of attacks, security professionals must put various types of controls in place. They include the following:
Physical controls—The physical security measures that safeguard the environment, such as doors, locks, cameras, security gates, and fences. Physical and environmental protection is included as one of the 18 control families in NIST SP 800-53 (discussed in the upcoming section “NIST SP 800-53”).
Logical/technical controls—These include the more obvious hardware and software devices and appliances that protect the network, such as antivirus software, firewalls, host intrusion protection, and network intrusion protection. Wireless mobile devices, such as smartphones, rarely have these ...
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