Badge readers, cameras, building systems, contractor access. Each one sits between your security team and your IT team, and usually nobody has been assigned to it. This covers how to find them and what to do first.
Fifteen pages on the badge controllers, cameras, contractors, and drones sitting between your two programs. With the grid attack data, what Russia actually chose in Ukraine, and a camera flaw that went nine years without a patch.
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Protects people, buildings, and equipment. Covers entry points, sightlines, lighting, barriers, staffing, cameras, and the procedures people follow under pressure. When it fails, it fails in a specific place, at a specific time, to a specific person. Getting back to normal means ordering parts and waiting.
Protects data, networks, and systems. Covers identity, encryption, segmentation, monitoring, and patching. When it fails it can fail everywhere at once, and often nobody notices for months. Getting back to normal means restores and disclosure letters.
| Physical security | Cybersecurity | |
|---|---|---|
| Protects | People, facilities, equipment | Data, networks, systems |
| What an attacker needs | Proximity, or a drone | A route to the network |
| How fast you notice | Usually immediate and visible | Often delayed by weeks or months |
| Main defenses | Barriers, access control, lighting, cameras, staffing | Identity, segmentation, encryption, monitoring |
| How you test it | Site assessment, penetration test, tabletop exercise | Vulnerability scan, penetration test, red team |
| Who usually owns it | Facilities or corporate security | IT or a CISO organization |
| How it gets funded | Capital projects, often reactive | Recurring program spend |
| What forces the issue | CIP-014, TSA guidelines, insurance, OSHA duty of care | Sector frameworks, privacy law, contractual audit |
Some are locks that run on your network. Others are network controls that a held door defeats.
A badge reader is a computer on your network. Take over the controller and the doors open.
Camera systems are some of the least updated equipment on any company network.
Every network control assumes nobody walks in and takes a drive off the shelf.
Heating, elevators, and fire panels run on networks and control the building itself.
Someone holds a door for a stranger and every login control behind it stops mattering.
Outside firms get badges and logins, and usually nobody reviews the two together.
IT assumes facilities handles the door. Facilities assumes IT handles the device on the door. The badge controller runs firmware from 2019 and a vendor account from a finished contract still works.
The same thing happens with every shared system. It survives because each program audits its own scope and neither one owns the boundary. You can pass a cybersecurity audit and a fire inspection in the same quarter with clear issues.
WorldSafe compares the security you have against the security your risks call for.
Write down every control you actually have across both programs, including the shared systems neither side lists. Put a name against each one. If nobody owns it, that goes on the list.
Walk realistic paths end to end. An intruder at the loading dock. A contractor badge that outlives the contract. A camera network reachable from the guest wifi.
Score every gap on what it would cost and how likely it is, then put them in order. Physical and digital findings go on the same list.
What to look for when your security is integrated.
WorldSafe assesses the physical side and the seam. Start with a site assessment or read about Resilience as a Service.
Definitions, overlap, ownership, and where to start.
Physical security protects people, buildings, and equipment from access, damage, and harm. Cybersecurity protects data, networks, and systems from unauthorized digital access. Both defend the same organization by different means, and they fail in different ways.
Constantly. Access control, cameras, and building management all run on the corporate network. Server rooms need locked doors. Social engineering starts with somebody who walks in. An attacker takes the cheaper path.
One program where physical and digital security share a risk register, an incident process, and a reporting line. Findings from either side get ranked against each other on the same list.
A comparison between the security you have and the security your risks call for. It maps the controls you have, tests them against realistic scenarios, and ranks what is missing by what it would cost you.
Whichever one would cost you more, which is what the gap analysis works out. Most organizations with a mature cyber program find the physical side well behind it, because physical security rarely has a dedicated budget owner.
Usually nobody, which is the problem. Badge systems, camera networks, and visitor management all sit between IT and facilities. Putting one name against each shared system closes most of the gap.
WorldSafe assesses your physical program and the seam it shares with IT.
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