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physical security of datacenter with hosting services
From: Bob Bayn <Bob.Bayn () USU EDU>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:36:10 -0600
Our central data center of about 1800 sq ft is being overhauled and upgraded after about 20 years of service: new water cooled air conditioning, UPS, standard rack systems with hot and cold aisles and elimination of operations staff. After the overhaul the facility will provide additional hosting capability for the wide assortment of servers scattered across campus and will give campus planning services the opportunity to reject attempts to create mini-datacenters in departments in favor of using our improved location to host their servers. The consequence of concern to me is that we will have many more people expecting to have access to their equipment in the data center which we will no longer have staffed. We will have access control by biometric scanner and will have cameras throughout the facility. However, someone authorized to manage the server for the department of redundancy department will also have physical access to all of the core services housed in the same room. They will have signed security agreements but their visits to the data center may not be directly monitored. How do others manage the physical access by 30-50 people to an unstaffed central data center and maintain assurances that core systems are uncompromised? Bob Bayn IT Security Team Utah State University Logan, Utah
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