Physical and Technical Controls

Physical and technical controls (or physical access controls shortly) restrict the personnel access to the office buildings, labs, server rooms, data centers, or computer operation rooms where critical assets related to IT operations are operational.

Besides such restrictions, enhanced corrective actions can reduce these risks.

• Higher levels of screening, reorganizing movement patterns at some key locations, and not displaying names of important buildings, can reduce the physical threats.
• Also, closed-circuit television cameras, motion detectors, and other devices can monitor the activities of people and detect any intrusions.

There are a number of physical security controls available in the market that the organization should consider for implementing physical access controls both inside and outside of the facility; we'll introduce each of these access controls in the next slides.