Awareness module on physical infosec

This awareness and training module concerns physical security protecting tangible information assets, particularly IT systems and data storage media, plus paperwork, authentication tokens, keys. and workers, often our most valuable and vulnerable information assets. The kinds of physical security events and incidents that can befall tangible information assets include: • Straightforward theft or loss; • Tailgating or physical intrusion, allowing intruders to observe, copy, steal, replace or damage information assets (both physical and digital) on-site; • Damage - criminal or accidental such as fires, floods, storms, lightning, static electricity, voltage surges or drop-outs, electromagnetic disturbances, mold; • Mechanical/electronic failure or obsolescence, IT equipment becoming ‘worn out’ and unreliable, intermittent or failing completely; • Subversive hardware e.g. surveillance using microphones and cameras built-in to many IT devices, installation of bugs and wireless...