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| Badge blurred for obvious reasons. It lists my real title as "Grand Security Bison of the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo" |
This is one of the many ways that I take security seriously as a security professional. If you mind all the small things, like how you wear your badge, often the big things will follow suit.
Just having a badge or access card is "Check box Compliance" as a past manager once told me. Company has photo badges: Check!, No one can see them on their belts: Check!, Lanyard rotates the photo around making the photo useless for identifying someone in a hall: Check!, No one cares if a person walking in the data center doesn't have an ID badge visible: Check! Check box compliance does nothing. Utilizing the tools required by compliance does everything.
ID badges allow for quick identification of individuals and empower anyone in the organization to make a determination if that individual should be in a given area. I prefer wearing my badge this way because it avoids many of the common issues that take a very valuable security tool, like a identification badge, and turns it into one more thing those tinfoil hat wearers in security require that everyone will ignore.
After the jump I will break down my reasons why the way most people wear their ID or access badge defeats the point of the ID in the first place. I will also discuss what you can do to make the ID and access badge process more valuable to securing your organization.
Just having a badge or access card is "Check box Compliance" as a past manager once told me. Company has photo badges: Check!, No one can see them on their belts: Check!, Lanyard rotates the photo around making the photo useless for identifying someone in a hall: Check!, No one cares if a person walking in the data center doesn't have an ID badge visible: Check! Check box compliance does nothing. Utilizing the tools required by compliance does everything.
ID badges allow for quick identification of individuals and empower anyone in the organization to make a determination if that individual should be in a given area. I prefer wearing my badge this way because it avoids many of the common issues that take a very valuable security tool, like a identification badge, and turns it into one more thing those tinfoil hat wearers in security require that everyone will ignore.
After the jump I will break down my reasons why the way most people wear their ID or access badge defeats the point of the ID in the first place. I will also discuss what you can do to make the ID and access badge process more valuable to securing your organization.
