Physical Security for IT
Providing practical, easy-to-understand and readily usable advice, this practical book shows organizations how to design and implement physical security plans for IT, network, and telecommunications assets.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Physical Security for IT
Appendix D: Physical Security Planning Checklists
Overview
There are several checklists and sample forms contained in the chapters of this book. For your convenience they have all been assembled in this appendix. The original table or form number is included in parentheses after the title of each exhibit.
Practices to Reduce Attacks by Employees (Table 1.3)
| Notify security staff when an employee has been terminated or suspended. |
| When you do not have a security staff, notify all managers and supervisors when an employee has been terminated or suspended. |
| Maintain strict policies on access to facilities by non-employees and train all employees on those policies. |
| If terminated or suspended employees had been issued keys, ensure that keys are returned. |
| Change the locks for which any angry former employee had keys. |
| Change key codes to electronic doors immediately after an employee has been terminated or suspended. |
| Disable user rights for computers or communications systems held by the former or suspended employee. |
Practices to Reduce Attacks by Activists (Table 1.4)
| Notify security staff of the activist groups that may have targeted your organization or similar organizations. |
| When you do not have a security staff, notify all managers and supervisors of the activist groups that may have targeted your organization or similar organizations. |
| Ensure that the primary services for the building are secured, including electricity, telecommunications, gas, water, and sewer, in a manner that makes it difficult to access and harm control systems and connections. |
| Develop contingency plans for disruptions in primary services. |
| Determine if critical or sensitive information is... |
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