Your Firewall Can't Hear Radio · Chapter 7
Ten Minutes With Security and Facilities
The blind spot exists because the job is split.
Radio links fall between teams. Nobody did anything wrong. The org chart just has a gap in it.
- Security usually cares about exposure, unauthorized access and evidence.
- IT and network care about connectivity, segmentation and device identity.
- Facilities and engineering care about uptime, maintenance and service vendors.
- Physical security cares about doors, readers, cameras and visitor access.
- Operations cares about continuity, safety and response time.
Put them in one room for ten minutes. Ask three questions.
- Which devices at this site use cellular, RFID or another radio?
- Which of them would hurt access, alarms, monitoring or operations if they went quiet or acted strange?
- Who approves a response, and who confirms the service still works?
If the room goes quiet, you've found your blind spot. That isn't a failure. It's a starting point.
Start with one blind spot
You don't have to fix every site. Start with one area you can understand completely: one badge-reader environment, one group of cellular controllers, one remote site, one wireless sensor network, or the modems your vendors installed.
The Findavi RF Blind Spot Assessment listens through a passive network port and the RF switch, in Observe mode. Our team walks the site to find the modems Findavi can't hear. Nothing changes. At the end, you get:
- The devices, radio activity and modems we found in the area you picked
- Which ones are exposed, and why
- Who owns each one
- Prioritized findings and next steps
- The security and service checks each action would need
TRY THIS
Which one site would hurt most if its hidden wireless connections failed, changed or were used by someone else? Start there.