Information Security Newsletter - Physical Security Edition

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Important Physical Security Tips

Scott Harrell, Pursuit Magazine

Here's some good security advice for you and your clients that I receieved via email today and cannot attribute directly to its author. It certainly gives us all something to think about with all our new electronic technology.

GPS - A couple of weeks ago a friend told me that someone she knew had their car broken into while they were at a football match. Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on the dashboard.

When the victims got home, they found that their house had been ransacked and just about everything worth anything had been stolen.

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Physical Security Do's and Don'ts

CyberSecure Technologies Inc.

The frontline in protecting your data and your computer is securing the physical equipment itself. The risks are twofold.

There is a basic danger to your data, and therefore your security from natural or technological causes related to our basic computer and technology infrastructure. There is no way to prevent power failures, surges, bad connections and faulty data transmission. You can, however, minimize the damage to your system and your information.

More importantly, there is danger posed by the loss of physical control of your computer. The most extensive breaches of computer data in the past six months have been the lost laptops and unsecured workstations at companies like SAIC and a host of government agencies. Physical security is paramount!

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Physical Security is Also Important

Michael Farnum

I went to see a potential client yesterday to pitch my company's security wares. I drove up to the very expansive facility, all the time fully expecting a pretty strong physical security presence since this was a large manufacturing facility. But alas, I was wrong. As I pulled up to the security guard shack, the guard inside raised the gate arm and simply waved me through. Well, to say the least, I was a little confused. Was this guy serious? But I couldn't just drive in and go because II I didn't know where the person I was going to meet was located, and I was waiting on my sales person to arrive. So I parked on the side of the street and walked into the guard shack to ask some questions. I was right about then that the evil social engineer in me decided to kick in.

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