Protecting Your Assets with Physical Security Systems

Whether you own a multi-unit residential building or a commercial facility, there is a tremendous value to utilizing physical security to monitor, record, control, access, and secure your facility.

Physical security systems can reduce theft, increase productivity and protect a company from significant liability in the event of a workplace injury or accident.

A smart business tactic is to conduct a physical security review on a regular basis. To keep you, your business, and occupants safe, implement the following measures: Assess what you have in operation, develop a list of what you need, and make a plan. Everyday events have become even more unpredictable.

Because of this, implementing and maintaining strong physical security measures matter even more.

What is physical security?

Physical security is the safeguarding of workforce, hardware, programs, networks, and data from adverse physical situations and events as a means to prevent serious losses or damage to a business.

Causes range from accidents, natural calamities, burglary, theft, vandalism, escalated public events, and/or terrorism. Video surveillance, security alarms, access control systems and identification systems–all fall under the category of physical security solutions.

Why is physical security important for businesses?

Most businesses are focusing on implementing cyber safety measures that ward off technical and dramatic issues such as hacking, viruses, Trojans, and spyware, etc.

Virtual threats require the perpetrator to have a certain degree of technical knowledge. As a result, physical security is an overlooked and underestimated factor.  Attackers can easily target gaps in outdated or incomplete physical security systems.

Even those who have little or no tech smarts at all. The full implications of intrusion are learned only after damage has been done. Accidents and natural disasters are all too common occurrences of daily life, while unrest in some areas has increased.  Your business may run into security challenges even before you know it.

To avert these situations, you need to have a proper plan of defense in place and adopt physical security measures that ensure that your business is safe and secure. Here are some things to consider:

Components of physical security

Physical security generally includes the following three main components:

  1. Hurdles that might be placed as the first line of defense to discourage attackers or as a barrier against accidents and environmental disasters. These types of security measures include fencing, fireproof safes, multiple locks, etc.
  2. Monitoring of spaces and installing notification systems, including things like light and heat sensors, smoke detectors, wireless detectors, alarms, cameras, access control and CCTVs.
  3. Disarm the attackers with advanced measures before any damage is done. In addition, recovery methods that help businesses to recover from accidents, fires, or natural disasters more effectively.

Choosing the right physical security for protecting your assets

Consider the following while selecting the right physical security method for your business. Features you should have; interoperability with your existing systems, cost-effectiveness and whether or not they are endowed with proper network and video expertise.

Look for features that include:

  • Easy deployment, use and maintenance
  • Good network integration
  • Ability to secure existing assets as you migrate
  • Support open standards

Moreover, the provision of using the network as a platform for integrating security measures is a great consideration. It offers an open and scalable way to rev up the security methods for your business.

Physical security is an indispensable part of business operations. Certainly when considering benefits like operational flexibility, enhanced protection features, reduced cost of ownership, and lower risk.

Have you deployed the right physical security measures within your business? What do you think has been the most valuable to you and your company to date?

Have questions any questions about your organization’s security? Contact us today.

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