Physical Security

Physical Security

Project assignment is to have you do more research on the physical security topic. In theory, everything may look straight forward, however, in real life it might not be like that. In this project you will need to do some research and find an article where physical security has failed. It can be a server room breach, it can be a data center breach, and any scenario that physical security has failed would be your subject. I am sure there are many recent incidences that you are going to find.

This assignment is worth 40 points and 10% of your grade.

Here is what needs to be done:

1. Find an article (from a reputable magazine or link) describing where physical security has failed.

2. Submit a review of this article. Propose a possible change in that organization’s physical security that could have prevented the breach/failure for that scenario. What do you think would have prevented the incident?

3. Submit at least 2 but no more than 3 pages double spaced, APA style MS Word document.

4. No photos or graphs.

5. Reference all sources used.

6. This is an individual work and NOT a group effort

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            The protection of hardware, software, personnel, networks and most especially data from physical damage or events that would lead to damage is known as physical security. Physical security thus serves the purpose of protecting all the above from natural disasters, fire, cyber theft, burglary, terrorism, and vandalism.

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