What Cybersecurity Can Teach Us About Campus Physical Security

As a UCLA faculty member who works on critical infrastructure cybersecurity, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to secure the complex networks and systems that deliver our energy, water, food, and data. Given the tragic June 1 murder-suicide at UCLA, it’s particularly timely to consider some important security analogies between those systems and physical spaces such as university campuses.

Campuses, like critical infrastructure systems, are complex, have many ingress and egress points, and are highly decentralized and dynamic. Like those systems, campuses are accessed by very large numbers of people—the overwhelming majority of whom are well intentioned, and a tiny fraction of whom are not. And, both campuses and complex networks require balancing the need for effective security solutions with the need to make sure those solutions don’t impede normal operations.

In light of those similarities, here are some lessons from cybersecurity that can be used to improve on-campus physical security. For the full article click here 

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