CP/M/CPM_CDROM.iso/enterprs/cpm/utils/f/pwinstl.arc/TEXT6.MSS

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@CHAPTER(Computer System Security)
@SECTION(Physical Security)
@DIVISION(Computer Room Security)
@INDEX(Computer Room Security) There are three basic reasons for
maintaining computer room security.  These are:
@ENUMERATE[Preventing access to the computer itself.

Preventing access to the data physically contained in the computer.

Preventing access to the communication lines leading out of the
computer.]
@PARAGRAPH(Computer access)
There are simple reasons to keep people away from the computer
itself: a vandal can physically destroy the equipment or disrupt
the service it provides.  Either can be costly, but both are
easily discovered (after the fact!).
@PARAGRAPH(Physical data access)
Where there is a computer, there are usually disk and tape drives
and the storage media they use in close proximity.  Theft of
online media is easy to detect (@i(most) computer systems
complain if you remove a disk or tape from the drive while it is
in use!), but if the data contained therein is itself secret or
valuable, detection is not as important as prevention.  Theft of
off-line media (e.g., backup tapes) is almost as easy to detect.


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