Which strategy is used to protect high-value assets in an industrial setting?

• A. Isolate assets in remote location, disable alarms, limit access to managers, avoid redundancy
• B. Controlled access, continuous monitoring, incident preparedness, tailored physical safeguards, and redundancy
• C. Rely solely on insurance, ignore monitoring, and reduce staff
• D. Increase production targets, streamline operations, reduce security funding

Answer: (B)

Layered protection, or defense-in-depth, is the approach used to safeguard high-value assets in industrial settings. Proactive security combines controlled access so only authorized people can reach critical assets, continuous monitoring to detect unusual or unauthorized activity in real time, incident preparedness so the organization can respond quickly and effectively to any event, tailored physical safeguards that fit the specific risk and asset type, and redundancy so essential systems have backups and can keep functioning even if one part is compromised. This mix creates deterrence, quick detection, efficient response, and resilience, which is exactly what valuable assets need. Other options fall short because they either weaken protections (dispersing assets and disabling alarms, restricting access to only managers, avoiding redundancy), rely on insurance rather than preventing losses, ignore monitoring, reduce staffing, or prioritize production over security funding—none of which provide a comprehensive, proactive defense.