A Risk Assessment of Piql Services by FFI

lower floors 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.

Local security measures

All security measures required by Piql AS are in place.

Consequences

The physical infrastructure of the building housing the piqlVault suffers severe structural damage from the initial blast wave. The building is caught in the mass fire shortly after, which rages for hours at extreme temperatures. The building, and everything in it, is no more.

Outer building

The infrastructure of the storage room and the piqlVault system suffers the same fate as the building within which it is place.

Vault

Box

The piqlBoxes all melt during the mass fire.

The piqlFilms all melt during the mass fire.

However, image a slightly different scenario: Were the piqlFilms located outside of the thermal radiation radius, i.e. just out of reach of the destruction caused by the detonation but instead exposed to the maximum amount of radiation from the radioactive fallout, the piqlFilms would suffer exposure to high-energy radiation over a long period of time. Because of the mass fire and the consequent intense heat and the danger to exposure, no personnel can get near the piqlFilms for days. The high levels of radiation will do little to the integrity of the information on the piqlFilms, but it will result in reduced longevity for the physical medium.

Film

As the building which houses the piqlVault is destroyed, this is not relevant.

Power/energy supply

Divergence from

As the building which houses the piqlVault is destroyed, this is not relevant.

ISO standard

Security mechanisms

The integrity of all the piqlFilms is compromised, as none of them retained their physical structure after the detonation and the data is lost.

Integrity

The availability of all the piqlFilms is compromised, as they all were completely destroyed after the detonation and as such never accessible again.

Availability

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