Yeah, that was the painful part. Almost nobody had access to that entire suite and those that did underwent stringent background checks and were very technical, so physical security once you were in the suite was limited.
IIRC, I believe it was discovered that the janitorial staff used building keys rather than the RFID locks so they weren't even logged when they arrived in suite.
I was a little surprised that hitting the emergency button didn't trigger an alarm of some kind, but that's how it was installed in the 80s and I'm fairly certain it's still that way, today (though I don't work there any longer).
Outside of those omissions, things really were kept in order: monthly battery tests, quarterly diesel/full system and disaster recovery tests. It's right when you think you have a solid process that someone comes along and pushes the wrong button, or burns some toast and triggers a floor evacuation/unexpected Halon test (that happened, too -- at some point they took away all of our nice things).
IIRC, I believe it was discovered that the janitorial staff used building keys rather than the RFID locks so they weren't even logged when they arrived in suite.
I was a little surprised that hitting the emergency button didn't trigger an alarm of some kind, but that's how it was installed in the 80s and I'm fairly certain it's still that way, today (though I don't work there any longer).
Outside of those omissions, things really were kept in order: monthly battery tests, quarterly diesel/full system and disaster recovery tests. It's right when you think you have a solid process that someone comes along and pushes the wrong button, or burns some toast and triggers a floor evacuation/unexpected Halon test (that happened, too -- at some point they took away all of our nice things).