AP Cybersecurity Unit 2 Lesson 4 Exercise 2
Exercise 2 — Designing Delmar’s Monitoring Plan
3 parts, 24 points — Place cameras, sensors and one guard post at Delmar Applied Optics
You are still on the Xtensr Research Labs physical security team, and the six controls you recommended for the acquired Delmar building are now installed: the finished-lens vault has a card reader, a door contact, an access control vestibule and an interior motion sensor; the engineering file server has moved into a locked cabinet; the badge controller sits in a locked enclosure with a tamper switch; the reception PC has port blockers and a privacy screen; the testing bay has a UPS; and the ground-floor optics bay has flood barriers with the optics racked above grade. The $150,000 capital budget is spent. What Delmar does not have is a monitoring plan: the exterior and the below-grade optics bay carry no funded detection at all. A small operating budget now covers two cameras, a handful of motion sensors and one security officer. Priya Raman and Curtis Okafor both have opinions about how to spend it.
3b. Curtis is using the wrong kind of evidence. Four months with nothing reported is not proof that nothing was attempted; it is a count of what Delmar was able to detect, and Delmar’s detection coverage is incomplete by design — the exterior and the below-grade bay have no detection funded on them, so an intrusion there would leave no record for anyone to report. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence when you already know the sensor set has holes in it. It also confuses two different functions: five of the six installed controls are preventive, and prevention and detection do different work — a lock, an enclosure or a flood barrier can stop an attack while producing no record that one ever happened. Cutting the officer and the feeds would remove the only part of the plan that generates a record at all, which is precisely what an after-incident investigation runs on.
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