Summary
This chapter addressed some areas of physical and safety that affect the operation of cybersecurity teams such as business continuity, personnel safety, and the resilience of security monitoring systems, as well as the security aspects of systems used in protecting physical security.
Most of these topics involve developing and maintaining contact with various areas of the business outside of IT: finance, human resources, corporate travel, and physical security.
The topics of business continuity, physical safety, and travel often involve a very specific context, such as what the line of business of the organization is, what its legal obligations are, whether it owns or leases buildings, or how much data it is prepared to lose. For this reason, it is hard to come up with best-practice solutions to these items. Instead, the common recommendation is that teams develop and maintain relationships with the other departments in the business that are responsible for them and see...
