Physical & Electronic Security (Paperback)

Paperback. You protect your data and your money. Who is protecting the building? Most owners think about security only after something has already gone missing. A pallet walks off the loading dock. A laptop disappears over a weekend. A delivery is disputed and there is no way to prove what happened. By then the question is not how to prevent it, but how to recover from it. This book is about the other path, the one where you look at the building before it teaches you a lesson. Written for owners, executives, and CEOs with no technical background, this guide covers the part of your business you can see and touch and yet never quite look at. The doors. The locks. The cameras you do not have, or the ones pointed at the wrong thing. The room where your servers sit, holding every record your company depends on, protected by a door anyone could open. The alarm system you trust completely because a salesman told you to. In plain language, with no jargon, it explains what cameras, access control, alarms, and locks really do, and why they matter more than most owners realize. You will learn why physical access to a server can quietly defeat every digital safeguard you paid for, why the most valuable thing a camera does is protect you from liability rather than catch a thief, and why the gap an alarm installer left on your upper floor could let someone empty the place without ever tripping a sensor. Inside, you will learn how to: Protect your server room, finance records, and backups the way they deserveUnderstand why a camera system pays for itself through liability, not just theftChoose cameras, locks, and access control without getting lost in the jargonWalk through an alarm layout and catch the gaps an installer can missSpot the stranger nobody stops, and build a badge habit that actually worksBuild a practical security plan in phases you can actually afford You do not have to do everything at once, and you do not have to spend a fortune. You have to start before an incident starts for you. By the end of this book you will walk your own premises and see it the way someone with bad intentions already does. Part of the Everything A CEO Needs To Know About I.T. series from IT Support 101 Inc. Plain English. No geek speak. No experience required. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…