Question

No Plagiarism and must be in your own words (300 Words)

Subject: Physical Security

What are protective barriers, and what should they entail?

Answer 1

I am going to explain protective barriers only related to physical security. don’t forget to upvote if you like the answer.

Protective barriers are the one which help us in keeping the important things (which may be confidential data, information, gold, money etc) in safe place.

We define physical safety only if it has a limited access, only authorized person’s access

And this can be achieved only with the help of protective barriers.

Lets take an example where we need a protective barriers in real time:

Let’s say I need to construct a data centre so here we are dealing and maintains sensitive data of various clients so obviously it needs physical security which indirectly needs protective barrier.

List of Protective Barriers needed:

1. Security: once you identify a place to make the place safe .put security guards who allows only authorized persons into it.
2. Surveillance camera: this is also an important protective barrier which monitors place 24*7.
3. Fire safety: This is also an important barrier to keep the data safe.so proper fire safety precaution with fire extinguisher,fire alarm etc should be incorporated.
4. Access card and Time Tracker: This is one of the major protective barrier as important threat to physical safety is human intervention so to keep track of human intervention we need access card and time tracker.
5. Electric safety or power safety: Proper secuitry measures should be taken while constructing the building which is shock proof.to achieve this we need to make use of high quality wires and MCB(miniature circuit breakers).
6. In addition to above mention Barriers other protective Barriers which we should consider for ensuring physical security quality of the building, the region you choose is same from natural calamities if anything happens what are the quick measures which we should take to minimise the damage etc.

The above explained example holds good for all type of physical security.

I believe only if a place contains above protective barriers then only we say the place is safe and it is physically secure.