Home Products Support Resellers Register On-Line Library Contacts NetBotz White Papers The following are industry and market-specific white papers created by various research groups designed to better inform you, the consumer, about the dangers of physical threats within the IT and critical infrastucture areas and the reality of how these threats can be more dangerous than digital ones. - Let's Get Physical: The Emergence of the Physical Threat (PDF - 211KB) Sometimes we spend so much time worrying about cyber-attacks that we forget about the basic problem of physical threats. There are many types of physical threats that must be factored into a security program, including theft, sabotage, human error, and environmental disruption. --A Spire Research Report – June 2003 - Monitoring the Physical Environment of Distributed Systems (PDF - 123KB) The aftermath of Sept.11, 2001 has added physical threats to IT infrastructure components to the long list of potential problems faced by an IT operation. Due to their long history, data centers have been very apt at monitoring and controlling their physical environment. Distributed systems, on the other hand, are more resilient to office conditions and are often left unattended and uncontrolled, especially in remote divisions or branches of midsize and large corporations. --Giga Information Group, Inc. – August 2002 Copyright © American Power Conversion Corp., all rights reserved.