The Physical Setup
The office for the Business is a single dedicated room in the owner’s house, an
outwardly unremarkable dwelling in a middle-class neighborhood.
The office has the following physical security: there is a deadbolt lock on the
(solid core wooden) door. This lock is not on the same master key as other doors in the
house. There are two 1’ x 4’ openable windows, both of which are normally closed
when the office is not in use. The house, which is 100’ from its nearest neighbor and
50’ from the road, has smoke alarms and external motion-sensor lights.
In the office are the following computers and equipment:
· A Macintosh G4 desktop computer (“the Big Mac”) that stores the owner’s
and company’s email, customer orders, and the Business’s financial records.
· A gray-box PC used for personal use and for editing the website.
· An old desktop PC running Linux. This computer serves as a staging server
for the website (the actual production site is offsite at a shared hosting
facility).
· A Macintosh iBook laptop computer that stores the inventory database and
the credit card authorization software (and hence a database of past credit
card transactions).
· An HP LaserJet 4 network printer.
· A wireless/wired cable modem router/firewall appliance.
Additional technical details are listed in Appendix 1.