Mitigating Security Risks: Managing Physical Security Risks

IT Security    |    Intermediate
  • 11 videos | 56m 45s
  • Includes Assessment
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Physical security is an important but potentially overlooked consideration when implementing network security. In this course, you'll explore what's meant by physical security, how you can implement physical security risk countermeasures, and what the motivations are for doing so. You'll start by defining physical security. You'll then investigate the critical decisions you must make when planning for physical security. Next, you'll delve into various types of physical security risks, such as tailgating, and the methods to handle these. Moving on, you'll outline the layers of security controls that can be added to increase physical security and recognize the challenges security personnel face in ensuring physical safety. Lastly, you'll study how the security principles examined in this course can be used in facility and site design, including internal and perimeter security controls.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Discover the key concepts covered in this course
    List several physical security risks
    Describe what is meant by tailgating
    Describe physical security and its importance
    Outline the layers of physical security that can prevent a physical security risk
    List the key physical security risk countermeasures
  • Outline how security principles can be applied to the design of your facility and site
    Recognize how to implement security controls to tighten facility and site security
    Recognize how to implement internal and perimeter security controls
    List various physical security standards
    Summarize the key concepts covered in this course

IN THIS COURSE

  • 1m 49s
    In this video, you’ll learn more about the course and your instructor. In this course, you’ll learn about physical security. You'll also learn about the key decisions you must consider when planning for physical security. You’ll discover types of physical security risks and methods to handle such security risks. You’ll also learn about the layers of security controls that can be added to increase the physical security. Finally, you’ll learn about security principles. FREE ACCESS
  • 6m 32s
    In this video, you’ll learn more about physical security risks. First, you’ll look at an example of Missing Physical Security. Next, you’ll talk about four different categories you can divide physical security risks into. These include Political, Natural, Security, and Man-made threats. FREE ACCESS
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    3.  How Tailgating Works
    9m 56s
    In this video, you’ll learn more about tailgating. You’ll also learn more about the security risks that emerge from tailgating. You’ll also learn more about tailgating prevention methods. You’ll learn tailgating is a type of social engineering attack, considered to be one of the most widespread security breaches affecting the organizations today. It is also known as piggybacking because when one person uses their access to enter a door another follows without authenticating themselves. FREE ACCESS
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    4.  Physical Security and its Importance
    4m 56s
    In this video, you’ll learn more about what physical security is. You’ll learn about physical security goals. Physical security is part of information security. Physical security deals with physical assets within an organization, whereas information security is about protecting everything. Physical security is a domain within information security. Physical security prevents unauthorized access to physical assets such as servers, switches, and routers. The point of physical security is to protect assets against physical threats. FREE ACCESS
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    5.  Layers of Physical Security
    4m 2s
    In this video, you’ll learn more about the historical view of layered physical security. You’ll learn there a lot of different layers of physical security controls that have to be implemented. First, you’ll learn about a layered security approach in the context of physical security. This includes Perimeter controls, Facility controls, Datacenter controls, and Server rack controls. There are also facility controls to help protect assets. FREE ACCESS
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    6.  Best Practices for Physical Security
    5m 20s
    In this video, you’ll learn more about physical security best practices. You’ll discuss performing regular audits and compliance checks. You’ll need to perform regular compliance checks to ensure physical security isn’t tampered with and there are no security loopholes. Next, you need to implement an access control system. You need to make sure critical rooms in a facility allow only authenticated and authorized individuals to enter. Next, you’ll want to implement video surveillance. FREE ACCESS
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    7.  Security Principles for Site and Facility
    9m 5s
    In this video, you’ll learn more about security principles for site and facility. You’ll learn there are components of the security principles you’ll have to apply. One is the secure facility plan. Then, there’s site selection. Next comes visibility, natural disasters, and facility design. You’ll look at each of these in this video. FREE ACCESS
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    8.  Tightening Facility and Site Security
    4m 24s
    In this video, you’ll learn more about physical security. You’ll learn there are three different types of security controls. These security controls are known as countermeasures. These countermeasures include administrative, technical and physical. Each one has a distinct purpose and you’ll look at each one in this video. FREE ACCESS
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    9.  Internal and External Security Controls
    6m 29s
    In this video, you’ll learn more about internal and external security. You’ll also look at the type of controls you can implement within internal and external security. You’ll start with external physical security which includes protective barriers, signs, security guards, cameras, lighting, and more. You’ll learn how each of these plays a key role in tightening security. FREE ACCESS
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    10.  Physical Security Standards
    3m 1s
    In this video, you’ll learn more about physical security standards and crash test standards. To start with, you’ll learn about physical security standards. You’ll learn there are two key standards you should be aware of. The first one is LPS 1775. LPS stands for Loss Prevention Standard. LPS 1775 is a standard that tests the products in terms of how resistant they are to attacks. Then, you’ll learn about the second standard, EN 1627. FREE ACCESS
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    11.  Course Summary
    1m 11s
    In this video, you’ll review what you’ve learned in this course. You learned the basic concepts of physical security. You looked at physical security risks, tailgating, physical security and its importance, as well as the layers of physical security, best practices for physical security. You also learned about security principles for site and facility, tightening security, internal and external security controls, and physical security standards. FREE ACCESS

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