Activity Assignment: Integrating IT and Physical Security CISCO Case Study
1. Case Learning Objectives
• Lists security technologies used for physical access control.
• Identify physical security issues in a large corporate with many facilities all over the world.
• How the corporate solves its physical security problems.
• Discuss the advantages of a solution to physical over its alternative.
2. Case Description
Read the paper "How Cisco IT Controls Building Security over the Enterprise WAN" and answer the case discussion questions below.
3. Case Discussion Questions and Their Mappings to Bloom's Taxonomy
Table 1: Mapping of Cisco Physical Security case discussion questions to Bloom's Taxonomy.
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Cisco Physical Security Discussion Questions
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Cognitive Level
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1. Why did Cisco Systems transition from standalone access control systems to an IP networked systems?
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Level 4 - Analysis
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2. What challenges did Cisco system face in order to solve the physical security problems?
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Level 1 - Knowledge
Level 2 - Comprehension
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3. How did the new architecture system solve the access control problem? Explain?
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Level 2 - Comprehension
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4. How did Cisco systems solve the physical security problems?
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Level 2 - Comprehension
Level 4 - Analysis
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5. What security technologies did Cisco deployed to control building security?
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Level 2 - Comprehension
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6. Even though the employees in the Cisco Systems have doubled STS team remains same. Why?
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Level 4 - Analysis
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7. How did centralized managed IP based building security system save cost?
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Level 4 - Analysis
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4. References
[1] Whitman, M. E. and Mattord, H. J. Principles of Information Security, 3rd edition.
Thomson Course Technology, 2005.