Rapport

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FFI-RAPPORT 16/00707

Location

Location description

Geographical zone: Middle (Middle East). The region was rich in oil

resources, with many oil fields which can be potential lucrative sites for

oil drilling again. The developmental level is not very high, and

construction techniques are not very modern or advanced.

The piqlVault is situated in an urban area, right in the city centre.

The scenario takes place in the future, 2157, as it presupposes an

imagined situation in which oil is scarce, but no alternative energy

source has yet been discovered. The time period is 0-30/50 years, as the

user is business sensitive. The scenario is also a risk in the present, so

long as the Piql Preservation Services store information which others are

willing to go to great lengths to gain access to.

Environment

description

The climate zone is hot desert with very little precipitation. It is spring,

the beginning of May. The local weather conditions are fairly hot and

dry: 25° Celsius with a relative humidity of 38 %.

The incident occurs late afternoon, when there are fewer people in the

piqlVault than during the busy hours of midday.

Vault description

The scenario takes place while the piqlFilm is in storage in the

piqlVault. The piqlVault system is placed in a storage room located in

basement of an office building.

The vault is regulated through ventilation to uphold the ISO standards

governing levels of humidity and temperature.

Local safety

measures

All safety measures required by Piql AS are in place, see section 5.5.1

for details. However, the developmental level is not the highest, which

is reflected in the sophistication level of the implementation.

Local security

measures

All security measures required by Piql AS are in place.

Consequences

Outer building

The physical infrastructure of the building and the storage room is not

affected.

Vault

The structural integrity of the piqlVault system is not affected during the

theft. However, the piqlVault system is the part of the Piql Preservation

Services which is breached. A high level employee with complete login

access to the system is able to use the EWMS to retrieve the relevant

piqlFilms. Though the EWMS only stores the reel IDs of the piqlFilms,

as this was an insider theft, the operator already knew which ID number

corresponded to the piqlFilms of interest to the rival oil company X. The

transaction is logged, as all transactions are in the EWMS, which

ultimately leads to the capture of the operator in question. Yet, as there