What is Data Center Security?

It’s the physical practices and virtual technologies used to protect a data center from external threats and attacks.

While your internal team is providing digital security, PSG provides physical security for the site to make sure all bases are covered.

For private companies moving to the cloud, data centers reduce the cost of running their own centralized computing networks and servers. They provide services like data storage, backup and recovery, data management, and networking.

Because these centers hold sensitive or proprietary information, including customer data or intellectual property, they have to be both digitally and physically secured.

PSG Follows Best Practices

There are many aspects of physical security at data centers. PSG understands the complexities and uses time-tested techniques:

You Know Where Everyone Is

Access management to data centers is a critical component of the overall physical security of the environment. Both providing access and understanding movement through the data center is key. The use of biometric readers, anti-tailgating systems, mantraps and other physical access control systems to ensure access to spaces is authorized and monitored is critical.

Multi-Layered Approach

Physical security requires defense in depth. Defense in depth means using coordinated, multiple security countermeasures. To provide comprehensive physical security, multiple systems and processes must work together, like perimeter security, access control and process management.

Employee Training

PSG can train your employees to ensure that they adhere to physical security procedures and understand the importance of their responsibilities to the data center’s physical security program. Intruders always will look for weak links, and it’s been proven that weaknesses often can be on the human side of the equation.

Testing / Monitoring Physical Controls

PSG will validate access permissions, ensure video equipment is recording and verify that anti-tailgate mechanisms are working as intended.

We Know and Protect the Most Vulnerable Areas

Every data center has weak areas that are more prone to physical attacks. These areas, which need high security at all times, including:

Computer/server Rooms

This is where primary data activities happen. Be it hosting a network or storing data, the primary processes of a data center are performed by the machines there.

Data Storage Locations

It’s important that you store data safely, but you also must ensure its availability, sanctity and integrity at all times. PSG knows that this means the data storage facility will need heavy protection from physical attacks.

Wiring Rooms

This area hosts the wiring of the entire data center. Usually, this is where the alarm systems and firewalls are located. If someone were to shut down any of these systems, it would be easy for them to conduct a remote data breach or completely shut down a server. At PSG, we know this room must be protected at all costs.

This is undoubtedly the age of data. Ensuring that your organizational data is kept physically secure is a top priority. At PSG, we know the more secure your data is, the more your clients will trust you.

PSG has the experience and the officers to understand your unique data center security needs, provide training and ongoing security to protect and defend your data center.

Learn more about some of the industries we serve:

Commercial Real Estate Security

Warehouse and Industrial Security

Technology & Data Center Security

Corporate Campus Security

Residential Security

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