Physical Protection

Question 1

Locks, keypads and biometrics

Answer 1

Access to individual workstations or server rooms can be physically stopped by locking doors, locking screens via the keypad or putting padlocks on machines, or by using biometrics

Question 2

Placing computers above known flood levels

Answer 2

Placing machines on a second floor, to where flood levels are unlikely to rise, is a simple form of protection.

Question 3

Backup systems in other locations

Answer 3

Backup does not protect data from loss or theft, but mitigates the effect if data is lost or stolen, as it provides a copy

Question 4

Security Staff

Answer 4

Security staff are sometimes considered to be a form of physical security

Question 5

Shredding old paper based records

Answer 5

If paper based records are not shredded, then there is a risk that confidential or sensitive data may be found and used by others.