Rooms of a home workplace in which sensitive information is stored and processed or sensitive devices are kept or operated are considered sensitive rooms. Allowing unauthorised persons to enter these rooms without being monitored poses a significant risk to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data present.

Examples:

• An employee has set up an office at home in a separate room, but does not always lock the door. When she leaves her children unsupervised for a moment, they begin playing in the unlocked home office. The children then use important documents for colouring.
• As an employee is working on a project at his home workplace, he has an unexpected visitor. Whilst the employee is making coffee in the kitchen, the visitor briefly wants to search for something on the Internet and accidentally infects the unlocked client with malware.

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