Security
Damage Control Threats to cyber security are now unfortunately commonplace, but that doesn’t mean threats to physical security within the data centre are any less prevalent. Mike Pickup, technical lead and quality assurance manager at HESCO, discusses data centre growth and the implications to physical security that come with it.
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here are numerous reports and studies which indicate a growing change in data centre dynamics, some predicting a slow decline in the number of centres fuelled by the migration from small onpremise facilities in preference to the use of ‘mega data centres’. Regardless of this prediction, the physical protection of sensitive
and commercially valuable data is essential as the opportunity cost of losing or having your data compromised is significant. The protection of such facilities principally falls into two distinct areas, cyber and physical security, which ideally should complement each other as much as is feasibly or practically possible. Cyber security is designed to mitigate
an attack which is often aimed at inflicting damage or expropriating information for nefarious purposes. The systems in place are monitored, updated or improved as often as is required whereas unfortunately, the physical security aspect does not typically afford the same level of attention, often due to installation, time and through-life costs. The provision November 2017 | 27