Physical and Facility Security

Is perimeter security viable with Swiss cheese networks? Traditionally, information security has been based on strict dividing lines. Companies wanted to allow only their employees access to important resources and keep everyone else away. Network perimeter security products, such as firewalls, became popular because they established a clear demilitarized zones between insiders and outsiders.

As business moved to the Internet, deciphering the sightlines as to whom...

New business initiatives mean new threats. Are you ready? From January to May of this year, the Identity Theft Resource Center tracked 136 major identity thefts affecting 56 million people. According to the Ponemon Institute, 45 percent of such breaches result from missing laptops. At an average corporate cost of $182 per compromised record, why doesn't every company encrypt laptop data?

"Worldwide, about 20 percent of laptops are encrypted," says Richard Stone, vice president of...

The Estonia attacks demonstrate that it takes only a few individuals to expose vulnerable civil infrastructure systems to harm. As the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks draws near and airports are on high alert for possible "dry runs" from terrorists, the likelihood of cyberterrorism has yet again surfaced for discussion in information security circles.

Some have scoffed at the assertion that cyberterrorism is a real threat today. But with the power of botnets...

Security managers are asking pure-play vendors questions about their viability. It was difficult to tell whether Art Coviello's tan was from the sun or whether he was just flush with cash. It was the dead of February in San Francisco and there was the leader of RSA Security telling attendees at his company's namesake conference that the standalone security market would be extinct by the end of the decade. "The value of security as a standalone solution is diminishing," he said...

Integrating physical and logical security can bring many benefits to the enterprise, but a successful union isn't easy. Typically, physical and logical security--also known as IT security--are separate operations in most enterprises. In fact, IT and physical security teams have tended to mix like oil and water. But marrying physical with logical security can reap considerable benefits.

Convergence enhances efficiency because user access to physical and IT resources is...

FAMIS Space Management is a sophisticated system for managing the physical space of buildings, providing true institution-wide space management by consolidating facility related data usually scattered over diverse departments. FAMIS Space Management is a sophisticated system for managing the physical space of buildings and other structures, providing true institution-wide space management by consolidating facility related data usually scattered over...

Raging Wire Enterprises, a 200,000 sq/ft Tier IV data center discusses how its strategic partnership with Square D CPCC contributes to its reliability, uptime and an ultimate success. Power systems in today's data centers represent the highest level in optimization for reliability. This is a necessity, since the computer and IT equipment in these facilities and served by these power systems are extremely sensitive to even a momentary loss of power. When a data center has...