{"id":13687,"date":"2023-02-05T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynews.com\/?p=13687"},"modified":"2024-03-25T14:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:36:45","slug":"types-of-security-risks-physical-and-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynews.com\/types-of-security-risks-physical-and-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Types Of Security Risks: Physical And Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, cybersecurity attacks have been up by 600%<\/a>. Your physical and digital security are linked, and you must ensure that both strategies are fortified against modern security threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading to learn about the types of threats affecting your physical, digital, and cyber-physical security. The security climate is changing, and you must implement infrastructure changes to keep up with the modern security threat sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Physical Security Risks To Your Business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Below is a list of the various physical security risks posed to your business in the modern security climate – along with some of the best practices to prevent these risks from evolving into serious breaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intrusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Your physical security strategy reduces your exposure to intrusion. If an unauthorized person were to gain access to your premises, employee safety, data security, and valuable company assets could be at risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mitigate the risk of intrusion, you need to implement commercial building security systems<\/a>. Physical access control eliminates the risk of lockpicking by replacing keys with keycards and fobs. Your employees and authorized individuals can enter the building using their keycards, while intruders will not be able to enter the premises using lockpicking methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natural Disasters And Emergencies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Natural disasters and emergencies on site could result in the loss of life, injury, and the destruction of your company\u2019s most valuable assets. To ensure your business is equipped to survive natural disasters, you should ensure that all of your digital assets are housed in a cloud-based location – this way, you will be able to retrieve the data should your servers and digital resources be destroyed. Additionally, you should ensure that your business has insurance to cover the cost of recovery for your valuable assets and resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You should ensure that your emergency evacuation and response procedures can ensure the safety of staff members on site. You can do this by implementing cloud-based access control, allowing system administrators to initiate evacuation procedures and unlock all doors on site. Additionally, you should implement alarm systems such as smoke and carbon monoxide detectors that will alert staff to the incident as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employee Theft And Poaching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In addition to securing your building from intruders, you must ensure that you are protected as much as possible from potential breaches from employees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can apply role-based permissions<\/a> to your physical security to ensure your employees cannot access these resources and mitigate exposure in an internal security breach. Only high-level employees can access client data and server rooms, while others will only gain access permissions to enter the spaces they need for daily operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Security Risks To Your Business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To help you understand why cybersecurity is such a crucial aspect of your business health, you will find a list of various digital security risks<\/a> below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human Error<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Human error is one of the leading causes of cybersecurity breaches within businesses. Employees must be provided with the training and information necessary to spot and avoid untrustworthy online sources. To provide your employees with adequate training and reduce your digital security exposure, you should cover the following topics in your training:<\/p>\n\n\n\n