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Physical Security Big Apple

Here are some lower-cost options Big Apple Manager could consider to improve physical security while addressing cost concerns: - Upgrade existing security measures like access controls, alarms, cameras rather than completely relocating. This provides security without the full relocation costs. - Consider co-locating servers in a third-party data center rather than building/maintaining their own. This outsources maintenance/upgrades while gaining a secure, reliable facility. - Implement a cloud-based disaster recovery plan to mitigate on-site risks. If a threat occurred, operations could continue in the cloud until an on-premise solution is restored. - Segment the most critical systems requiring highest security to a separate, more secure on-

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Physical Security Big Apple

Here are some lower-cost options Big Apple Manager could consider to improve physical security while addressing cost concerns: - Upgrade existing security measures like access controls, alarms, cameras rather than completely relocating. This provides security without the full relocation costs. - Consider co-locating servers in a third-party data center rather than building/maintaining their own. This outsources maintenance/upgrades while gaining a secure, reliable facility. - Implement a cloud-based disaster recovery plan to mitigate on-site risks. If a threat occurred, operations could continue in the cloud until an on-premise solution is restored. - Segment the most critical systems requiring highest security to a separate, more secure on-

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Physical

Security
Big Apple Financials, Inc.,

Group 5:
Alfonso, Bondoc, Buduan, Canlas,
Del Rosario, Tongol
Background

• Big Apple Financials, Inc., is a financial services


firm located in New York City.
• The company keeps client investment and account
information on a server at its Brooklyn data center
• The company’s data center is in the basement of a
rented building. Company management believes
that the location is secure enough to protect their
data from physical threat.
• The company’s auditor, have expressed concern
that some of the measures at the current location
are inadequate and that newer alternatives should
be explored
• Management has expressed concern about the
high cost of purchasing new equipment and
relocating its data center
Why are Big Apple’s auditors stressing the need
to have a better physical environment for the
server?
• Auditors asses the physical environment so as to help mitigate risk
and create a secure environment for its server. Any flaw in the
physical environment could be an area of potential exposure that can
impact the quality of information, accounting records, transaction
processing, and the effectiveness of the internal control. A potentional
exposure may turn into a real threat that could destroy the servers and
the data stored, this could then impair their ability to function as a
business because a lot of process still needs to be done (like disaster
recovery planning) to operate normally again. In this case, their
current software controls are not tight enough to protect their servers.
And because of that additional controls are needed.
Describe six control features that contribute to the
physical security of the computer center.
1. Location of the computer center that affects the risk to
natural disaster.
2. The computer center should be in a single-story
building that constructed (ng maayos) with controlled
access
3. Persons authorized to access them should be the
operators and other employees working in the center.
4. Computers can be use at its best when it is in an air-
conditioned place
5. An effective fire suppression system is needed because
fire could seriously endanger the computers in the
company.
6. The company should have high fault tolerance for cases
that the computers are having failure but they can still be
operated properly.
Big Apple Manager is concerned about the cost of
relocating the data center. Discuss some options
open to them that could reduce their operating
costs and provide the security the auditor’s seek.

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