Security Perimeter
What is Security Perimeter?
The boundary of the area where security controls are applied to protect internal resources from external threats.
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What the standards actually require on security perimeter
Requirements naming security perimeter across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Provide security perimeters, card-controlled gates, staffed booths and entry control procedures. A small-system baseline control (Appendix K, category 5): verify access before entry, use keys, cards or combinations, audit access devices and keep SCADA workstat...
awwa-cybersecurity-guidance-for-the-water-sector-american-water-works-association::PE-1 · PE-1 Security perimeters and entry control →Security perimeters are defined and used to protect areas holding sensitive or critical information and processing facilities. As an Annex A reference control it is compared with the controls chosen in risk treatment (6.1.3 c) and recorded in the Statement of...
iso-27001-2013::A.11.1.1 · Physical security perimeter →The organization is to define security perimeters and use them around areas holding information and other associated assets. Purpose (stated in ISO/IEC 27002:2022): keeps unauthorized people out and protects information and assets from physical harm or tamperi...
iso-27001-2022::7.1 · Physical security perimeters →The organization is to define security perimeters and use them around areas holding information and other associated assets. Purpose: keep unauthorized people out and prevent physical harm to or tampering with the organization's information and assets.
iso-27002-2022::7.1 · Physical security perimeters →Health guidance: subjects of care move throughout operational areas, so the public's physical safety and security and of the data and systems accessible in that environment must both be preserved;
iso-27799-2025::7.1 · 7.1 Physical security perimeters →ISO/IEC 27002:2022 control 7.1 applies, with telecommunications guidance: equip operations centres with adequate physical intruder detection;
iso-iec-27011-2024::7.1 · Physical security perimeter →Questions people ask about security perimeter
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