Why Physical Security is Important

re: Why Physical Security is Important

srikrishnak — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 03:41:45 GMT

How many of us really do give a thought to physical security..when ever we read some books on 10 domains or only during auditing we hear about it..but in real world its one of the grey area...added to that the social engineering methods it can be a threat if ther are no mitigations in place..

Why Physical Security is Important

The Industry Insiders — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:08:19 GMT

Rodney Buike has written a detailed article about the importance of Physical security. I often talk about...

re: Why Physical Security is Important

John C. Kirk — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:38:13 GMT

I've been thinking about this recently, in the context of wireless networks. One of our wireless hubs has a handy label on the back of it, saying "Default login is 'admin', default password is 'password', poke here to reset the hub to factory defaults". For cabled network devices, we can keep them all locked up in the server room, and limit access that way, but wireless hubs pretty much have to be spread around the building. So, how do other people handle this? Do you lock each wireless hub inside its own cabinet, or just put them up near the ceiling and hope that nobody will climb up without being spotted?

re: Why Physical Security is Important

Rodney Buike — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:45:28 GMT

John C. Kirk makes a very valid point. In my sitution we do have the WAP's located in small locked cabinets with the switches. It did cut down on the range of them a little, but a few extra WAPs made up for that and the security benefit was worth it IMO.

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Just Another IT Blogger — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:57:13 GMT

My first article for the Industry Insiders blog on Why Physical Security is Important has been published!

Rodney Buike has written a detailed article about the importance of Physical security. I often talk about this topic myself as it's often deprica