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Concerns Of Outsourcing Physical Security

What security concerns does outsourcing present?

By Marene Allison

July 19, 2004 — CSO — Outsourcing primarily takes away your personal span of responsibility around the activities you are outsourcing. However, you now have to rely on a third party to take the same care and due diligence that you would take. For example, if you hire a guard company, you have to ensure that the post orders are maintained to your standards; you have to ensure that they complete the background checks with the same due diligence that you would; their training program must meet your needs. The same goes for the installation of security devices: Are they wired properly? If you have an enterprise system, is your outsourcer doing the virus updates? Is there a firewall? You must consider all the security risks that you might have if you did all the activities in-house, but you have to rely on others to ensure that the work gets done.

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