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What is the Physical Security Village?
Physical Security Village (PSV) is a security awareness initiative that makes appearances at security conferences (like DEF CON) as well as other educational functions. The aim of PSV is to raise awareness of easily preventable security faults that occur in any home or business through hands-on learning. This encourages individuals to check their premises and fix security issues in a way that deters would-be burglars and makes it harder for them to gain entry.
PSV focuses on physical vulnerabilities, mostly resulting from incorrect installation and poor hardware choices. At conferences we tend to steer clear of lockpicking, although we have covered this at other functions.
Who runs the Physical Security Village?
Physical Security Village was started in 2018 with the name Lock Bypass Village by a group of security researchers from Toronto, Canada. We have since expanded to include voluteers and team members from around the world.
If you are interested in helping out at a conference or with our day-to-day operations, check out the Get Involved page.