Your Company Security Concerns: Physical Security Research

YOUR COMPANY SECURITY CONCERNS
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Introduction
Building materials companies contemplate that the most adverse threats are from competitors, the economy and the construction activity. There are also security threats like physical threats and information security threats. The same threats affects competitors and so for McLeod Co. to gain a competitor advantage, tight security measures are needed for mainly their information security threats (Steve Durbin, 2012).
For McLeod Co. assets that need to be protected is majorly the new innovative technology on the process and materials used in making of bricks. McLeod injects a certain strain of aquatic bacteria in sand used in the brick making process. This process is patent to my company and the resultant bricks can be used for any structures in construction due to their vigour. This assets needs to be secure as it’s what differs McLeod from our competitors. The supervisor and the mixers in the brick making are responsible for this asset’s protection. They have the knowledge on the mixing ratios and how it’s manufactured. The same data is stored in the company computer but only accessed by the manufacturers. There are security threats to this asset and many more that the company produces (Zaharia, 2015).
Information security threat is on the upswing due to innovation in technology. It can be in form of internal threat, regulatory menace and external risk. External threats arise from cyber crime cases, espionage and activism. These can occur on the building material info that are patent to the McLeod Co. When such information is hacked, it becomes disastrous to company performance. Regulatory threats are often from the supervisory body that want to implement a...