A system for controlling access to data based on environmental verification can include a physical environment authenticator that receives data characterizing environmental parameters of a node in an environment from a set of environmental sensors. The physical environment authenticator can compare correlated environmental parameters with each other and/or a threshold value. At least a subset of the correlated environmental parameters are based on the data from the set of environmental sensors and grants access to a data if the correlated environmental parameters indicate that the node is operating in an authorized environment and prevents access to the data if the correlated environmental parameters indicates that the node is not operating in an authorized environment.