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Site and facility design

Site and facility design

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Site and facility design

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- [Instructor] Cybersecurity professionals must also ensure the physical security of facilities under their control. This includes limiting access to those facilities, authenticating employees seeking to gain access, and tracking contractors and other visitors who access the site. Let's begin our discussion of physical security by discussing some of the different types of facilities that must be protected. Data centers are the most obvious locations of concern to cybersecurity professionals. These secure facilities contain all of the servers, storage, and other computing resources needed to run the business. Data center access must be strictly limited to prevent the potential theft of resources and information. Anyone gaining physical access to a data center would have the ability to cause significant damage and disruption to the business. Now, not all servers are kept in the relatively safe confines of a managed data center. Many businesses only have simple server rooms that often…

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