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Securing Your Facility?
krahd asks: "We, at the CS department of our University, in Uruguay, are evaluating different ways of securing the access to our floor. Until now we have used just a traditional door lock, but its's time to delpoy a new, more geeky solution. So, after reading this Ask Slashdot, I figured I'd pose this question as a follow-up. What would be the best way to do it? We've already evaluated biometric technologies like iris-scanning and fingerprint-scanning, and more traditional ways like intelligent cards but, what others possibilities exist, and which would you choose? Yes, price does matter."
Are cheap and effective. Keep a list of people allowed in and out, and check ID's religously.
Not what you were looking for? I suggest implimenting a system involving some kind of 'frikin lasers'
...get a bridge and position a guard to ask:
What is your favorite color?
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Also, presumably if someone steals your finger, you will be aware of the security breach rather quickly!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
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Incoming telephone, cable and electric lines should be protected from the moment they enter your building. All lines should enter into a protected equipment room in the basement, which should be a concrete room with a strong, locked steel door. From there, all lines that run to your networking areas should be enclosed in protected ducts that are difficult to saw into. Each networking area should have walls of concrete with thick chicken wire on each side, over which the drywall and plaster is installed. All doors entering into these areas should be of the metal variety. No windows should allow looking into these areas. Inside the networking area should be a concrete room containing the high end servers and other expensive equipment that provides frequent services but is accessed infrequently. These should be locked behind strong doors. Guards should be posted by each door, including the one to the basement and to each networking area. Each member of personnel should have an ID badge that is difficult to counterfeit as well as a five digit entry code. The ID badge should be verified by the guard as the security code is entered into the system. This allows the door to unlock. Guards carry keys that unlock only a deadbolt on each door. The security code opens the other lock. Thus it is necessary for both the guard and the other person to participate in unlocking the door. Guards carry weapons to fight anybody who attempts to enter by force. Inside the networking areas, all computers are secured by digital means outside the scope of this post. This security setup can then be touted as 100% secure and unbreakable. Management is stupid enough to believe a claim like that.
Make sure your walls go all the way to the top. Sounds silly, but way back when I was in college, the company I worked at installed all sorts of card readers and magnetic locks. What they did not do was actually run the wall beyond the suspended ceiling. On the bright side, the doofus's id card triggered the reader on the other side when he hopped the wall.
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