Converged Security and the Agency Privacy Programme
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Cameras, access control, alarm panels, guard-tour apps and visitor systems are now computers on a network. If they are badly set up, an attacker can switch off cameras, open doors, or steal footage and personal data, without going near the fence. At the same time, a security agency holds a great deal of personal data: guards' identity documents, police verification, bank details and health information; visitors' names and phone numbers; hours of footage. Physical security, information security and privacy are now one job, and the manager owns it.
Focus: know every connected device, separate and protect the security network, control who gets in, patch and back up, classify information, bind people with confidentiality, run a privacy programme, and share data with police and clients only by a written protocol.
Learning objectives
- Explain why physical and information security must be managed together.
- Set the minimum technical controls for security systems: inventory, network separation, two-factor sign-in, patching, logs and backups.
- Control vendor and remote access.
- Classify the agency's information and set handling rules.
- Use confidentiality agreements and exit steps.
- Build an agency privacy programme.
- Write a data-sharing protocol for requests from police and clients.
- Respond to a data breach.
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