Students taking the End User Physical Security course will also learn access control policies, physical security for the perimeter to the front door, internal security, and surveillance and countersurveillance measures.
What is physical security? Physical security is the protection of personnel, hardware, software, networks and data from physical actions and events that could cause serious loss or damage to an enterprise. This includes protection from fire, flood, natural disasters, burglary, theft, vandalism, and terrorism. This course is designed with the end-user in mind and serves as the ideal starting point for anyone looking to enter the cyber security field and ultimately raise their threat awareness. What will I learn? Why physical security matters for computers How to protect against physical attacks How to use physical security controls.
Who is this Course for?
This course is intended for the standard end user employee that is not in a security practitioner role; however, anyone can benefit from taking this course.
Course Goals
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Understand the purpose of Physical Security
- Understand all of the facets of Physical Security
- The importance of Physical Security
- How Physical Security measures also play a role in Disaster Recovery
