Re: PAB Re: site security

From: Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Date: Fri Feb 20 1998 - 07:01:37 PST


I would suggest that perhaps the CORE equipment should be located at
the PAIX, which has excellent internet connectivity and top
security. If this is desired, I could contact Paul Vixie on behalf of
CORE.

Perry

"Robert F. Connelly" writes:
> Dear Kent:
>
> I add one small item to your recommendations.
>
> Son Duane immediately proposed something like Lojack. I understand you can b
uy
> a crown with a transmitter in it from the "Spy shop" in the New York airport.
 
> (Also a list of dentists willing to install it!)
>
> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to see just where the units are going?
>
> Regards,
> BobC
>
>
> At 05:54 PM 2/18/98 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 12:15:21PM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> In light of the breakin and theft, I thought a little harder about site
> >> security.  I had thought that Best was dandy.  No question they are popular
> >> and I know their operation in Mountain View quite well.  I assume S.F. is
> >> the same.  Card keys, locked cages, hallway window into the room for
> >> staffers to view. 
> >>
> >> On the other hand, visual control is not constant or even heavy.
> >>
> >> So I just called Exodus and heard a notably different description of
> >> security features.  They have all the stuff Best can claim.  In addition
> >> (though I don't know if there are differences in the quality of the
> cages...):
> >>
> >> 1.  24 hour guard.  You get the card key each time from the guard, rather
> >> than carrying it will you, and must sign in, showing photo id.
> >>
> >> 2.  Equipment coming in or going out is logged.
> >>
> >> 3.  Cameras on the access.  (Pretty sure Best doesn't have this.)
> >>
> >> All 3 of these points make for much stronger security than Best has.
> >>
> >> Might be worth considering.  I haven't checked other providers.
> >
> >Under the circumstances, I see several choices, in order of preference.
> >
> >        1) Get Best to improve their security -- they may want to do
> >        that after this incident, because really, it could have
> >        happened to any of their customers.  Given the value of the
> >        equipment there, 24 hour attendance is not a luxury, it is a
> >        necessity (I was under the impression that Best supplied this,
> >        but obviously there are gaps.)
> >
> >        I would think that Best might want to seriously rethink their
> >        security posture -- this could have been a bomb, instead of
> >        a theft.  If they won't seriously improve, then I don't think
> >        there is any choice but to...
> >
> >        2) ...move to someplace like Exodus.  Our security auditors,
> >        if they are worth anything at all, should make this point
> >        strongly, and I don't think, if we are serious, that we will
> >        have any choice but to follow their recommendations.   We
> >        have an excuse -- our final production configuration is
> >        contingent on our security audit, we could say.
> >
> >        3) implement our own security measures (install alarms,
> >        cameras, etc, hire a security guard).  This is a distant,
> >        distant, third.  To be effective it would still have to
> >        involve Best.  We could do this, but it would be a denial of
> >        reality, IMO.
> >
> >--
> >Kent Crispin, PAB Chair "No reason to get excited",
> >kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke...
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> >



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