North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Re[2]: Checking visitors entering your facility
Deeann, you don't need to let cleaning staff into your NOC for a threat to exist. Access to a filing cabinet, storage closet for cleaning supplies, or even the underside of a desk is all a terrorist needs to leave something undesirable enough that you'll be enacting your disaster recovery plan from a remote location. As for off-site shredders - our Provincial government used a contracted company to shred high school achievement examinations. An employee of the shredding company "liberated" a couple of exams and sold them to students. If something is important enough that it should be shredded, do it onsite--do it right. -- Leigh Anne > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > deeann mikula > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 6:29 PM > To: Richard Welty > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re[2]: Checking visitors entering your facility > > > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Richard Welty wrote: > > > given the stories we hear about routers and switches and servers being > > unplugged so that the vacuum or the buffer can be run, it's clear that > > nobody is escorting the cleaning staff around the facility. perhaps this > > should change. > > wow. you mean people actually let cleaning staff into their nocs? > i'd rather have a little clutter than let janitorial services into our > noc. it's actually the responsibility of the technical staff to > vacuum the carpetted edges of the room and empty the wastepaper > baskets when it needs to be done. wouldn't you rather move trashcans > out of the NOC once a week than worry about who is going in there > after hours and unplugging stuff? > > but then again, two of the "bean counters" (myself and the owner) are > part of the technical team, so we think of things like that. one of > the benefits of working for a tiny ISP i guess. > > as for that reminder from sean about checking IDs, thanks for that. > we are about to have some installs done by verizon and adelphia which > will involve access to the noc and telco entrance. i will pass that > reminder along to all of the staff. > > deeann m.m. mikula > > director of operations > telerama public access internet > http://www.telerama.com > 1.877.688.3200 >
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