Developing a Security Policy for the Use of CCTV in the Northern Border University

Abstract

The use of closed-circuit television (CCTV) in universities is a challenging task due to global strong opposition to its implementation at education institutions. The ministry of higher education of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has initiated a plan for monitoring educational institutes across the Kingdom. Therefore, this paper proposes a new framework for developing a comprehensive security policy for using CCTV in the Northern Border University, which streamlines the implementation, usage, and securing of the CCTV footage contents. In this regard, a new policy was developed combining the principles of activity theory, international standards, and design science methodology. It considered six key elements from both theoretical and practical perspectives, namely government rules, technical aspects, training, security requirements, users, and legal issues. Based on them, a standard 12-principal policy was developed; to help organizations easily implement and evaluate the developed policy and secure the contents, the principles were classified into three categories: performance, security, and policy management. The findings showed that the implementation of the policy developed in this study not only improved the security measures of the university, but also built trust among the stakeholders due to the high internal security and effective evaluation of the surveillance system.