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• What are the points of exposure for data flowing in and out of the cloud?
• How critical is the data to be used within the cloud to the organization’s operations?
• What data is being considered for use in the cloud?
• Should the organization adopt a private or public cloud?

• The grid’s quality of service needs to remain at a level acceptable to users.
• Host machines on the grid shouldn’t be over-utilized to the extent that their local clients are denied service.
• Trust levels need to be managed when new grid members join, or existing depart.

Prevention

• Use non-flammable building materials
• Conduct training on how to respond when a fire occurs

Suppression

• Use portable fire extinguishers

Detection

• Install heat-detectors
• Install ionization smoke detectors

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• The assignment and monitoring of key holders.
• The decision whether or not to hold master keys.
• The limitations and controls placed on the duplication of keys.
• The need for patented cylinder locks, depending on security requirements.

• Vault security classifications are supplied by the underwriters laboratory
• The underwriters laboratory provides standards for the construction of vault doors, floors, walls and ceilings
• The weight of a safe contributes to its security classification.

InstaKey

A key device that can be used to disable a using one turn of a master key to change a lock.

IntelliKey

A key device that contains a built-in microprocessor, microcomputer, and key-exchange data.

• Contains sensitive data that, if lost, could cause serious harm to the organization or others.
• The access rights of personnel into the area are frequently verified.

• Acoustical detection: A bio-hazard laboratory is in a hermetically sealed area of a building.
• Motion detection: A large warehouse needs after hours protection.
• Electrostatic detection: A expensive painting on display needs protection.
• Electro-Mechanical detection: the door to a server room.

• Electro-Mechanical detection: detects breaks in electrical circuit.
  
• Passive Infrared: Detects fluctuations in energy and particle temperature within the protected area.
• Motion detection: A large warehouse needs after hours protection.
• Electrostatic detection: detects capacitance changes in a defined field.

• Mechanisms for preventing unauthorized access to rooms where sensitive data is stored.
• Bars on windows that represent possible building entry points.
• Surveillance devices for securing the perimeter of the organizations’s premisses.
• A security gate for restricting access to a suite of offices.