PHYSICAL ACCESS CONTROL Flashcards
Physical access control
Physical access controls are items you can physically touch. They include physical mechanisms deployed to prevent, monitor, or detect direct contact with systems or areas within a facility.
Examples of physical access controls include security guards, fences, motion detectors, locked doors/gates, sealed windows, lights, cable protection, laptop locks, badges, swipe cards, guard dogs, cameras, mantraps/turnstiles, and alarms.
Badge Systems and Gate Entry
Physical security controls for human traffic are often done with technologies such as turnstiles, mantraps and remotely or system-controlled door locks.
cpted
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) approaches the challenge of creating safer workspaces through passive design elements
Biometrics
To authenticate a user’s identity, biometrics uses characteristics unique to the individual seeking access. A biometric authentication solution entails two processes.
-Enrollment—during the enrollment process, the user’s registered biometric code is either stored in a system or on a smart card that is kept by the user.
-Verification—during the verification process, the user presents their biometric data to the system so that the biometric data can be compared with the stored biometric code.