Physical Security Review

Protect Your IT Assets Through a Physical Security Review

While organizations focus on incorporating basic, logical security across their computer and information networks, they often underestimate the most fundamental aspect of security: the physical security of their IT assets. Unauthorized physical access to your IT assets can compromise all other elements of your security posture, as an intruder now has access to your systems and information. Many businesses do not always know what to look or design for, and assessing physical security goes beyond doors and locks.  

The Dell SecureWorks’ Physical Security Review service evaluates your environment's security controls and procedures in place to protect IT infrastructure. We review your environment to evaluate controls in place for the security of your physical locations and data centers.

The Physical Security Review is ideal for organizations seeking an independent evaluation of their physical security and how it compares to best practices.

A Physical Security Review helps you:

Ensure physical security does not compromise everything else

Physical security represents the foundation for any security model. A breach in physical security compromises all other elements of your security as people, systems and information are now potentially accessible by an “insider.”

The Dell SecureWorks' Physical Security Review evaluates your environment's controls for security gaps that may allow someone to penetrate your offices and data centers. In addition, the service provides recommendations on logical controls you can put in place to limit or impede access to networks and systems should your physical security be compromised.

Get actionable guidance to enhance physical security based on real risk

Physical security can be an expensive proposition. Especially for the resource-constrained organization, not knowing the real risk of holes in your physical environment can lead to mis-prioritized and expensive security solutions that do not address the greatest risk.

As part of the Physical Testing Review, our consultants create a risk-based prioritization of findings that take into account your unique business or organizational circumstances, industry best practices, and any compliance or regulatory mandates. We then provide you actionable guidance on how you can improve your physical security and which areas may be important to address first.  

Learn how logical security controls can reduce your impact from a physical security breach. Organizations that see physical security as the sole protection against threats, and do not implement sound logical controls around their systems, networks and intellectual property, are missing the larger picture.

As part of the Physical Security Review, our consultants share ways you can enhance your network and other logical access controls to reduce any adverse impact from a physical security breach. Strong logical controls, in addition to physical security controls, work to create a layered security model that can prevent or at least minimize the impact of a breach.

Our Process & Approach

The service reviews the following areas:

• Your physical security perimeter
• Personnel security
• Electronic and paper-media handling
• Logical and physical intrusion detection and response
• Your physical security plan
• Physical access controls
• Physical monitoring, such as cameras, door access logs, etc.
• Environmental controls in critical IT areas (such as fire suppression, climate control, etc.)

The Physical Security Review is an ancillary service that can be done in combination with other consulting engagements.

Get the “FACTS” on our proven engagement methodology

Our unique “FACTS” method is focused on the improvement to your organization that happens even after we leave. We focus on a long-term path to a more effective security posture.