49 Physical Safeguards
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Physical safeguards refer to how you safeguard the physical location of your data from unauthorized access.
Such safeguards are important for both digital and nondigital data. For example, nondigital data and data on portable storage media may be stored in locked filing cabinets as a protective measure. For digital data, physical safeguards include the security of location in which the hardware used for data storage is kept (e.g., on a computer in a locked office rather than in a public space). Storage service providers (e.g., your institution’s IT department or a commercial service provider) need to provide physical safeguards for their hardware to prevent unauthorized access to servers and data centres.
