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Recommended practices for physically securing PC's
From: jackadaniel at gmail.com (Jack Daniel)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:51:48 -0500
Cable and case locks are far from perfect, but they can help. One of the car dealers I used to support had some theft issues (hard to believe, I know), I installed cable locks (which also half-assed locked the cases) and it was enough to stop the problems they were having. As with any security issue, the determined attacker will always win, but the show of adding a lock not only adds a little security, it displays an awareness of a problem and sends the message to anyone paying attention that there is/was a problem. A little bit of awareness might trickle into the brains of the end-users, and that might make the needed difference. Jack -- ______________________________________ Jack Daniel, Reluctant CISSP http://blog.uncommonsensesecurity.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackadaniel On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Craig Morris <morris.tech at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks, we have just had a weird incident where someone stole 3 sticks of RAM from a PC located on a desk in a cubicle. ? Bearing in mind we have key card access to the building etc, but not the specific floor - that's open once inside the building. To combat this, we are taking the usual steps of key card access to the floor, moving the desktop PC to a locked room, securing the physical case with the case lock (probably not the most effective deterrent) We also have physical security guards who check bags etc on entry and exit but they can barely spell PC, forget about ID'ing a stick of RAM or HDD. We are considering using cable locks on the laptops located in cubicles, and possibly on desktop PC's as well. All of which is good and will assist in preventing the theft of an entire unit but won't prevent someone from stealing components - I don't place much faith in the case locks. So the question is, what's the practice for securing the components ? ?We don't want anything too draconian (like CCTV in work areas) or physically guards on each floor. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Craig _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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- Recommended practices for physically securing PC's Craig Morris (Feb 25)
- Recommended practices for physically securing PC's Jack Daniel (Feb 25)
- Recommended practices for physically securing PC's Paul Asadoorian (Feb 25)
- Recommended practices for physically securing PC's Tim Krabec (Feb 25)
- Recommended practices for physically securing PC's Mike Patterson (Feb 25)
- Recommended practices for physically securing PC's Jack Daniel (Feb 25)
- Recommended practices for physically securing PC's d4ncingd4n at gmail.com (Feb 25)
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