IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Safeguard Catalogue Infrastucture Remarks
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S 1.12 Avoidance of references to the location of
building parts requiring protection
Initiation responsibility: Head of Site/Bldg Technical Service
Implementation responsibility: Site/Bldg Technical Service
Building parts requiring protection are, for instance, the server room,
computer centre, data media archives, air conditioning centre, distributing
frames for power supply, switching and wiring/patching rooms, spare parts
store.
Such areas should not have any markings regarding their use. Doorplates -
such as COMPUTER CENTRE or ADP ARCHIVES - give hints to a potential
offender having access to the building so that he can prepare his actions more
specifically and thus with a greater chance of success..
If it is not possible to avoid the accommodation of IT systems in rooms or
parts of the building which can easily be seen from outside (cf. also S 1.13
Layout of building parts requiring protection),adequate measures will have to
be taken to prevent observation from outside or to arrange the room so that its
use is not apparent to outsiders. Attention must be paid to ensuring that, for
instance, not just one window of an entire storey is shielded against general
view.
Additional controls:
- Which information on the location of building parts can be seen from
outside?
- What location-related indications are provided in a building?
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000