Evaluation of physical security in a Movie Rhys Moyne – Pierre-Emmanuel Galisson Email: {rhymo632, piega786}@student.liu.se Project supervisor Juha Takkinen,
[email protected] Project Report for Information Security Course, Vt. 2009 Linköpings universitet, Sweden Moreover, our communication means have been Abstract increasing, leading to a “digitalized civilisation” in This paper focuses on evaluating three physical security the western countries, and this poses a serious threat scenarios in the TV series “24”. We elaborate on a in many ways: If a skilled attacker can penetrate into theoretical scenario, then analyse and compare the three a company network, a healthcare system, or even in selected scenarios that illustrate some of the fundamental the power distribution network, the consequences concepts in physical security by using the Deter-Detect- might be really devastating. Alarm-Delay-Respond method. After completing this evaluation, we find that “24”is often unrealistic from a And of course, where there is money to be made, security point of view. This is mainly due to the fact that Hollywood is not far behind. Filmmakers have shot the scenarios we used had a lack of coherence and were endless movies about technology and security issues. often too far-fetched compared to reality. The first good one was (apart from the movie Wargames, which although a little bit far-fetched, showed the early attacks on computer networks[1]) The Net , released in 1995 where a software engineer is facing a compete identity theft [2]. Since then, 1. Introduction many examples of what we call “security breaches” can be found in many movies but also in TV shows, like Chuck or 24 .