Uncleared personnel are escorted within secure areas.

]]> This section covers information relating to the escorting of uncleared personnel without security clearances in secure areas.

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]]> Ensuring that personnel have correct security clearances to access sensitive areas and that access by escorted personnel is recorded for auditing purposes is widely considered a standard security practice.

]]> Agencies MUST ensure that all personnel with unescorted access to TOP SECRET areas have appropriate security clearances and briefings.

]]> Maintaining an unescorted access list reduces the administrative overhead of determining if personnel can enter a TOP SECRET area without an escort. Personnel with approval for unescorted access must be able to verify their identity at all times while within the secure area.

]]> Agencies MUST maintain an up to date list of personnel entitled to enter a TOP SECRET area without an escort.

]]> Personnel MUST display identity cards at all times while within the secure area.

]]> Displaying an unescorted access list allows staff to quickly verify if personnel are entitled to be in a TOP SECRET area without an escort. Care should be taken not to reveal the contents of the access list to non-cleared personnel.

]]> Agencies SHOULD display within a TOP SECRET area, an up to date list of personnel entitled to enter the area without an escort.

]]> The unescorted access list SHOULD NOT be visible from outside of the secure area.

]]> Visitors to secure areas should be carefully supervised to ensure the need-to-know principle is strictly adhered to.

]]> Visitors SHOULD be carefully supervised to ensure they do not gain access to or have oversight of information above the level of their clearance or outside of their need-to-know.

]]> Recording visitors to a TOP SECRET area ensures that the agency has a record of visitors should an investigation into an incident need to take place in the future.

]]> Agencies MUST NOT permit personnel not on the unescorted access list to enter a TOP SECRET area unless their visit is recorded in a visitor log and they are escorted by a person on the unescorted access list.

]]> The contents of the visitor log ensure that security personnel have sufficient details to conduct an investigation into an incident if required.

]]> Agencies MUST, at minimum, record the following information in a visitor log for each entry:

name;
organisation;
person visiting;
contact details for person visiting; and
date and time in and out.

]]> Maintaining a separate visitor log for TOP SECRET areas assists in enforcing the need-to-know principle. General visitors do not need-to-know of personnel that have visited TOP SECRET areas.

]]> Agencies with a TOP SECRET area within a larger facility MUST maintain a separate log from any general visitor log.

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