Physical Security Measures & Biometrics

• Cyber security measure


  Something put in place to protect a weakness from being exploited and to stop a threat having a major impact
• Cyber security measure


  • Firewall
• Risk mitigation


  The process of choosing and implementing different security measures to reduce the risk of threats
• Risk mitigation process


  1. Risk assessment

  2. Choosing appropriate security measures
• Security measures


  • Some measures are more effective than others
  • Threats still exist even with effective measures, but the impact may be reduced
• Types of security measures


  • Physical restrictions
  • Logical restrictions (user access restrictions)
• Physical restrictions


  Measures protecting the physical surroundings of a system to stop unauthorised access to hardware
• Biometrics


  Distinctive and measurable human characteristics used for authentication, such as fingerprints, facial features, iris patterns
• Authentication


  The process of verifying that someone is who they claim to be
• Biometrics are harder to mimic than keys or passwords because they are unique human characteristics