Securing Physical Spaces unit test
A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.
Bollards and barriers
Clean desk policy
Secure server room requirements
Motion and door sensors
Fire suppression for equipment
Why physical security is security
Safe and secure cabinet
Deterrent, preventive, detective, corrective
Asset tracking and inventory
Signage
Site redundancy
Compensating control
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Screen locking
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Breach detection in physical space
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: Uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Cable lock
3 ptsFree response
6 ptsThis course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.
A hospital is deciding how to protect a system that stores patient records. (a) Define the confidentiality, integrity, and availability triad, and for each element give a concrete failure that would matter in this specific setting. (b) Ransomware encrypts the records and demands payment. Identify which element of the triad is most directly attacked and justify your choice. (c) Explain why a backup strategy must include restoration testing and at least one offline or immutable copy. (d) The hospital proposes requiring a second staff member to approve any bulk export of records. Name the principle this implements and explain what class of threat it addresses that technical access controls do not.