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Physical security

Physical security

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Physical security

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- Years ago, I had this buddy who had set up a web server that he was convinced was totally unhackable, and he's like, "Mike, I'll pay you X number of dollars." Well, it was a lot. "If you can get to this computer." And I mean he really did have it set up pretty good, really robust firewalling, all kinds of stuff. And I couldn't get into it. But what I could do is I put on a janitorial costume and I walked into his offices, walked up to the server room, and I physically removed the server and took it home. That's a true story, and I won that bet. So in this episode, what I want to talk about is physical security. Now we've been talking about shells. Let's talk about the three shells of physical security. We tend to draw physical security as a big circle around all of our stuff, and that's a fine way to start, but that's actually a little bit inaccurate. So what we have is what we call perimeter security, and this is stuff to keep people from even getting on the property to keep them…

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