Physical security

Physical security

Physical security is concerned with the physical constructs meant to safeguard against unauthorized access to military information or equipment. Due to the broad scope of these variables, challenges rise regularly, varying in targets and complexity. Physical security may be viewed as a result of physical risk avoidance, and failure in security may be considered to be in failure to recognize risks or communicate these risks. Most military organizations fail to assess how the access or breach of the physical elements of their organization may be implemented. This is because they are mainly focused on the more “technological” aspects of security. This is even though failure to address weaknesses in the physical components of the system would render all the firewall and cryptographic security measures useless.

Physical security has become a daunting task for most organizations due to the complexity associated with modern technology. In the past, large military systems have often relied on their size, physical distribution, and the effort that would be taken to breach them as a kind of security in itself. Cyber-physical systems are used extensively in the modern military in weapons and support systems. With the ubiquity of technology and growth in computing efforts, the vulnerability is more apparent since attacks may be inexpensive, and the existence of networks would make these attacks happen quickly. In this age, physical aggression could be less “physical” since intrusion can be managed by accessing a device with sensitive information that could authorize entry into a system. Physical destruction, similarly, does not need an actual person at the facility.