Chapter 10: Physical Security Requirements

Question 1

A ______ plan outlines the security needs of your organization and emphasizes methods or mechanisms to employ to provide security. Such a plan is developed through risk assessment and critical path analysis.

Answer 1

secure facility

Question 2

_____ is a systematic effort to identify relationships between mission-critical applications, processes, and operations and all the necessary supporting elements.

Answer 2

Critical path analysis

Question 3

_______ is the tendency for various technologies, solutions, utilities, and systems to evolve and merge over time.

Answer 3

Technology convergence

Question 4

True or False:

Site selection should be based on the security needs of the organization.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What prioritized order should physical security for an environment be?

Answer 5

Deter
Deny
Detect
Delay
Determine
Decide

Question 6

True or False:

An SLA clearly defines the response time a vendor will provide in the event of an equipment failure emergency.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False:

Server rooms should be located at the lowest floor of the building.

Answer 7

False; core

Question 8

A _____ policy (or clean-desk-space policy) is used to instruct workers how and why to clean off their desks at the end of each work period.

Answer 8

clean-desk

Question 9

A ____ is often used by government and military agencies, divisions, and contractors to provide a secure environment for highly sensitive data storage and computation.

Answer 9

sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF)

Question 10

The first stage or level of power management is using _____ protectors.

Answer 10

surge

Question 11

_____ is the interference of power through some form of disturbance, interruption, or fluctuation.

Answer 11

Noise