Soft security
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Soft security usually refers to
burglar alarms or motion detectors, but often refers to more elaborate social security systems such as the "moral network"[clarification needed
] in a tightly knit community — for example, a cluster of friends on a busy city street.
The term has gained widespread use in wiki communities, notably MeatballWiki.[citation needed]
The differentiation between "soft security" and "hard security"[clarification needed] was first made by Rasmusson and Jansson[1] who used the term hard security for traditional mechanisms like authentication and access control, and soft security for social control mechanisms.
There is a difference between the related concepts of
document control mechanisms such as workflow and authorization, to achieve both soft security and quality control.[2]
In commercial security, soft security is often achieved through training of staff to manage the environment (1) to make disruptions more noticeable, (2) to make disruptions less socially acceptable, and (3) to create a perceived vested interest in the public.[3]
References
- ^ Rasmusson, Lars; Jansson, Sverker (1996). "Simulated Social Control for Secure Internet Commerce". In Meadows, Catherine (ed.). Proceedings of the 1996 New Security Paradigms Workshop. Association for Computing Machinery.
- ^ SSRN 1579054.
- ^ Steven R.Keller. "Protecting the City Art Museum: Museum Security: Concepts/Practices" (PDF). Architect’s Security Group.