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Physical Security
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DEFINITION: Physical security is the protection of personnel, hardware, programs, networks, and data from physical circumstances and events that could cause serious losses or damage to an enterprise, agency, or institution. This includes protection from fire, natural disasters, burglary, theft, vandalism, and terrorism. Physical
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Protecting Confidential Data: The Role of Tape Encryption
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Protecting confidential data is nothing new to IT managers-they have been responsible for restricting access to corporate data and maintaining its physical security since the early days of computing.
Posted: 20 May 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007
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Data Center Waterless Fire Suppression System - Asset Protection
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A fire suppression system is critical to protecting an organization's electronic equipment, media and personnel. This white paper describes a waterless potassium based aerosol fire suppression system and its features.
Posted: 27 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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Temperature Alert Software for Server & Computer Rooms - Remote Monitoring
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This weather station warns of potentially damaging environmental changes and it is perfect for server room or remote computer room monitoring.
Posted: 27 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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Acquire a global view of your organization's security state: the importance of security assessments
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Security assessments from IBM can help find "point-in-time" or ongoing security gaps in data confidentiality, integrity and accessibility as well as prior breaches and budgetary justification for making necessary security investments.
Posted: 09 Jan 2008 | Published: 09 Jan 2008
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Ping
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Authentication and access control used to be fairly simple propositions: set up user IDs, passwords and role-based permissions and you were done. In today's enterprise environments, you have to get deeper in the weeds.
Posted: 03 Oct 2007 | Published: 01 Oct 2007
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Marriage of Convenience
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Integrating physical and logical security can bring many benefits to the enterprise, but a successful union isn't easy.
Posted: 06 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2007
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Editor's Desk
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The Estonia attacks demonstrate that it takes only a few individuals to expose vulnerable civil infrastructure systems to harm.
Posted: 05 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2007
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Securing Extranets
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Is perimeter security viable with Swiss cheese networks?
Posted: 03 Jul 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2007
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Emerging Technologies
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New business initiatives mean new threats. Are you ready?
Posted: 03 Jul 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2007
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Under Fire
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Despite the same old budgets and resources, midsized companies have to contend with new and more complex security attacks. Here's how a few are rising to the challenge.
Posted: 06 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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PHYSICAL SECURITY DEFINITION (continued): … security is often overlooked (and its importance underestimated) in favor of more technical and dramatic issues such as hacking, viruses, Trojans, and spyware. However, breaches of physical security can be carried out with little or no technical knowledge on the part of an attacker. Moreover, accidents and natural disasters are a part of everyday life, and in the long term, are inevitable. There are three main components to physical security. …
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