Long ago, we knew about physical security!
Our goal: Keep the bad guys OUT!
Back then, if the invaders got inside it was "GAME OVER". Time to react became our most important commodity. Fast notification as early as possible, and slowing down the invader's rate of advance were our highest priorities.
Our method: Make it hard for them to get close
Back then, the invaders were on foot or horseback. So we did everything possible, using the land, to make an invader's approach difficult. We cleared the perimeter so we could see them coming. Every step they took towards us became tougher: moats, drawbridges, followed by boiling water and arrows shot from the top of our fortress walls.
Today, not a lot has changed about the bad guy
- He's still on foot.
- He maybe using a truck instead of a horse
- He's still using brut force to wreck our village
He's pretty much the same as he was 2000 years ago
What's changed is the way we respond
For most of us, "physical security" means "Monitored Alarm" . But if we think of things the way we have for thousands of years, the monitored alarm doesn't provide physical security.
The truth is, the Monitored Alarm wasn't designed to provide physical security, it was designed to support it
Physical Security: The Missing Benefit is TIME
- TIME allows you to respond on your own terms.
- TIME makes the intruder play by YOUR rules
By itself, a monitored alarm is worse than nothing
- It let's you believe you've solved your security problem
- It puts an enormous burden on law enforcement
- It wastes your financial resources
A Monitored Alarm says: "Invade and I'll SCREAM!"
- The monitored alarm notifies us AFTER or at best DURING intrusion.
- This leaves us no ability to react or protect ourselves.
- The intruder is among us and we're playing by his rules.
Physical Security prevents an intrusion from ever happening
- True Physical Security is:
- Effective
- Relatively Inexpensive
- Permanent
Physical Security is a METHOD, not a single process or product
Our goal: Bring the PHYSICAL back to Physical Security