S 1.12 Avoidance of references to the location of building parts requiring protection

Initiation responsibility: Head of Site/Bldg Technical Service

Implementation responsibility: Site/Bldg Technical Service

Building parts requiring protection are, for instance, the server room, computer centre, data media archives, air conditioning centre, distributing frames for power supply, switching and wiring/patching rooms, spare parts store.

Such areas should not have any markings regarding their use. Doorplates - such as COMPUTER CENTRE or ADP ARCHIVES - give hints to a potential offender having access to the building so that he can prepare his actions more specifically and thus with a greater chance of success..

If it is not possible to avoid the accommodation of IT systems in rooms or parts of the building which can easily be seen from outside (cf. also S 1.13 Layout of building parts requiring protection),adequate measures will have to be taken to prevent observation from outside or to arrange the room so that its use is not apparent to outsiders. Attention must be paid to ensuring that, for instance, not just one window of an entire storey is shielded against general view.

Additional controls:

• Which information on the location of building parts can be seen from outside?

• What location-related indications are provided in a building?