Describe the following physical security measures and explain how they may be used to help keep systems secure.
• Locks
Locks are physical security measure that can be used in different aspect within the company. The locks can be put on the door to avoid people who not supposed be in the building or employees who not supposed be on that room. There are different types of locks that can be used within the company such as Password locks that be put on the doors, this will avoid anyone coming to room without password identification to enter the room. Also the company can use ID IDENIFACTION on the door so any employees comes have to use their ID in order to enter the building, this will …show more content…
Most of the organisation has a system that visitors cannot move around the building without an organisation employee to enter them to the building and escort them out. If the visitors in a wrong place of the building they can be identified to the organisation employee so they will escort them out, otherwise without visitors passes they cannot be identified and they might have a wrong reason of being on that building such as stealing equipment or stealing data, corrupting the system.
• Sign in/out systems
This security measure can be used within the system to secure and keep the data confidential. The organisation employees each one of them who uses a computer system can have a sign in and sign out system, which is User name and password that they need to enter before the system opened and that will prevent anyone from accessing the system without someone else permission . This will keep their data secured and confidential.
Sign in and sign out system also can be used for visitor. When the visitors arrives they sign in and when they out they sign out, this will help the organisation to identify what visitors are in the building and who was in the building. If anything happens in the building with that time they signed up, the organisation will know who was in the building and that will help them to investigate who caused the problem.
Biometrics