Create a Physical Security Plan For this assignment, you will make recommendations for ensuring the physical security of the hospital exterior, lobby, and maternity unit.
Your department has been tasked with suggesting a new physical control plan for the hospital to address facilities-related security issues with the floor plans and physical and access controls such as parking control, identification badges, and securing patient belongings.
You will provide security recommendations by designing three physical control diagrams. These diagrams should reflect what you think are optimal levels of security. As a member of the information security team, your role is that of a risk advisor, not a decision maker. The budgeting portion of the project will be completed later, and the budget is not your focus.
For each map, click the icons in the map key and drag them to the place on the map you believe they should be located. If you want to place an icon multiple times, you can copy the icon by right-clicking or selecting it and pressing Ctrl+C, and then pressing Ctrl+V as needed.
The Physical Security Plan Template contains follow-up questions related to the maps. You will submit the template and the maps next week for the Physical Security Plan assignment.
How Will My Work Be Evaluated?
As an information security professional, you must consider potential threats to the physical security of an enterprise and plan to implement controls to mitigate associated risk. The security recommendations in your three physical control diagrams demonstrate your understanding of how the physical environment and infrastructure can affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems.
The following evaluation criteria aligned to the competencies will be used to grade your assignment:
• 1.1.3: Present ideas in a clear, logical order appropriate to the task.
• 1.3.1: Identify potential sources of information that can be used to develop and support ideas.
• 2.1.1: Identify the issue or problem under consideration.
• 10.1.1: Identify the problem to be solved.
• 12.3.1: Select controls.
• 12.3.2: Describe the implementation of controls.
• 13.1.1: Create documentation appropriate to the stakeholder.
• 13.1.2: Describe the various processes that affect policies, processes, and procedures.
You will upload two separate files: a PowerPoint file with the security maps and the Physical Security Plan template document with your responses to the follow-up questions.
Physical Security Plan Template
Exterior
• Why did you propose the lighting where you did?
• When placing the parking lots, what factors did you consider?
• Why did you place cameras where you did?
Lobby
• What kind of windows are required? What kind of access control security are you providing for the visitor, employee, and patient?
• What kind of information would you collect from all nonemployees to enter the hospital for security reasons?
• What kind of security would you have at the door? (physical, ID badges, cameras)
Maternity Unit
• From a security perspective, why is the placement of the nurses’ station important?
• For security reasons, why do you encourage visitors to stay in designated areas or tell them where to go? (for example, signs, maps, paths, etc.)
• How do you secure the newborns from potential abduction and accidental switching?
• Would different secondary ID badges for maternity ward employees be recommended and why?
Security Training
• What kind of security training would you offer to employee staff, and how often would it take place? Why?
o Would the training be different for each group? How?