Hard Drives Shouldn’t Leave the Data Center
All it takes for sensitive information to be stolen is a thief walking out of a data center with a hard drive in their pocket.
Data centers are tasked with providing always available information services while securing against the ever present threat of both cyber-crime and physical theft. Unlike sophisticated cyber-attacks, physical data theft relies on more brute force approaches like exploiting weak security at entry control points often carried out by an employee.
The result of data theft can be disastrous to a company’s financial stability and, even worse, customer trust.
Is Your Data Center Secure from Physical Hacks?
A recent white paper from Anixta provides an overview of challenges faced by data centers and approaches to prevent physical theft. Good security practices against the physical theft of information at a data center is implemented across layers.
Perimeter security
Facility controls
Computer-room controls
Cabinet controls
Perimeter security is the first and last point of defense against a thief sneaking out a hard drive. The main goal of this layer is to provide deterrence, detect a threat early, and delay progress of the thief into or out of the facility. In order to accomplish these goals, all deployed security devices should be available over the network via standard IP-based Ethernet protocols. This includes sensors, surveillance cameras, locks, and man traps all connected to a centralized alarm system at a remote command and control center.
Intelligent Physical Security for Your Data Center
RONIN is the world’s first intelligent threat detection platform with the smarts to pinpoint the exact location of a hard drive – in a thief’s back pocket, in a shoe, a backpack, and even in a crowd. Way beyond just a metal detector, RONIN can identify the presence of a hard drive that matches the specific signature of a proprietary hard drive used in a data center.