Physical Security
Best Physical Security Measures for VFX Studios
Cameras and badge readers are table stakes. What separates a secure VFX facility is zoning, choke points, and disciplined I/O room controls.
Most content losses we investigate are physical at root — a hard drive carried out, a phone pointed at a monitor, a tailgated visitor in an edit bay.
Zoning
Define clear zones: public reception, general office, production floor, secure pipeline, I/O room. Each zone has its own access rules and its own surveillance posture.
Choke points
Concentrate sensitive work behind doors that only authorised badges open, with a camera covering the door itself — not just the corridor.
Phones and personal devices
Studios increasingly mandate phone lockers for production-floor staff. It feels heavy-handed until you've seen a leak traced back to a phone photo.
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