Principles of Information Security
Principles of Information Security
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ISBN: 9781285448367
Author: Michael E. Whitman, Herbert J. Mattord
Publisher: Course Technology
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Physical security:

Physical security is giving protection to physical items or objects or even areas from an unauthorized access. That is, it gives protection physically to people, system, hardware and some resources that are connected with the management.

Threats to physical security:

Some of the threats to physical security are as follows:

Inadvertent act – These are the potential actions of human error or failure, or any other deviations.

Deliberate act – It is nothing but the act of spying

Acts of god – This threat comes because of nature or some (example: fire)

Technical failures – This threat occurs because of failure in hardware or errors...

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