Topic 2 Flashcards
Refers to any physical structure whether natural or man made capable of restricting, deterring, delaying or preventing illegal and unauthorized access to an installation.
Barrier
A barrier that are offered by nature which could obstruct or delay the passageway of potential intruders.
Natural Barrier
A barrier that are structural constructions like fences, walls, floors, roofs, grills, bars, roadblocks, or other physical means to deter or impede penetration.
Man-made Barrier
A barrier that includes guards who stand between the intruder and the matter to be protected.
Human Barrier
Considered as the weakest link barrier because they can be easily tempted.
Human Barrier
A barrier that are usually shepherd dogs trained used as guards and other countries used goose.
Animal Barrier
A barrier usually electrical and electronic devices that could assist security personnel in detecting intrusions.
Energy Barrier
Is a system designed to impede unauthorized external acts such as simple intrusion to armed attack.
Minimum security
Is a system designed to impede and detect some unauthorized external activity such as on small retail store, storage warehouses.
Low level security
A system designed to impede, detect and assess most external activity and some unauthorized internal activity that range from simple shoplifting to conspiracy to commit sabotage.
Medium security
A system designed to impede, detect and assess most unauthorized external and internal activities of certain prisons, defense contractors, pharmaceutical companies and sophisticated electronic manufacturers.
High level security
A system designed to impede, detect and assess most unauthorized external and internal activities of certain highly sensitive establishments and places such as maximum prison cells, military bases and nuclear facilities.
Maximum security
Any physical barrier used to supplement the protection of an inside perimeter.
Perimeter Barrier
A medium or structures, which define the physical limits of an installation or area to restrict or impede access thereto.
Perimeter Barrier
A line of protection adjacent to the protected area and passing through points of possible entry into the area.
Inside Perimeter
A line protection surrounding but somewhat removed from the protected area, such as fence.
Outside Perimeter
A line of physical defense includes all perimeter barriers such as fences, bodies of water, gates, etc.
1st line of defense
A line of physical defense includes walls, doors, windows, roof, etc.
2nd line of defense
A line of physical defense includes those specifically internal control measures protective cabinets.
3rd line of defense
Is a metallic container used for the safekeeping of documents or small items in an office or installations.
Safe
It can be classified as either robbery or burglary resistance depending upon the used and need.
Safe
Is a heavily constructed fire and burglar resistance container.
Vault
It is bigger than safe but smaller than a security file room.
Vault
It is a cubicle in building constructed a little higher than a vault but bigger to accommodate limited people to work on the records inside.
File Room
Are independent structures designed for physical and visual access between outside areas.
Fences
Made of solid material in such way that visual access through the fence structure is denied.
Solid Fence
Are constructed with heavy materials such as bricks, stone and concrete, and usually extended down into the ground to a point of view below the front line.
Solid Fence
Is constructed in such a manner that visual access is permitted such as wire fence, through the fence structure.
Full view fence
it is designed purely to control physical access between two areas.
Full view fence
Masonry walls as perimeter barrier should have the same height as the chain link and surmounted by the barbed wire top guard.
Building walls
These security guards are assigned in a particular place of the compound to guard and watch the area surrounding.
Fixed Post
In this system, the security guard is required to walk and go around regularly around the company premises.
Patrol (Roving)
