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📘 09-04: Policies, Physical Security & Continuity

Network Systems

Module 09: Network Risk Management

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🔐 Security Policies

Policies establish rules, roles, and expected behavior — the governance that technical controls enforce.

Policy Purpose
AUP Acceptable use of resources
Password policy Complexity, rotation, reuse rules
BYOD policy Rules for personal devices
Incident response plan How to handle security incidents
DR / BC plan How to recover operations after disaster

📌 Access Control Best Practices

  • Least privilege and role-based access control (RBAC)
  • MFA — combine factors: something you know / have / are
  • Separation of duties
  • Disable default/unused accounts; change default credentials

🔐 Physical Security

Control Example
Deterrent Signs, lighting
Preventive Locks, badge readers, mantraps, fences
Detective CCTV, motion sensors, guards

📌 Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Metric Meaning
RTO Target time to restore a service after an outage
RPO Maximum acceptable data loss (in time)

Backups — the 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies, on 2 different media, with 1 copy offsite (or offline/immutable). Offline/immutable backups are the key defense against ransomware. Test restores regularly.


Tip

Key idea — Policies + access control (least privilege, MFA) + physical security + tested 3-2-1 backups and RTO/RPO targets form a complete risk-management program.

See also: Security Concepts, Fault Tolerance & Recovery