Check your server-room - 5 minutes for the security of your company

80%
of the IT administrators are not sufficiently informed about physical threats.
Take 5 minutes to check the security of your company´s server-room.

For server-rooms and data-center from
1-20.000sqft

Question 1-2 ►

Does your data center or server room have special criteria to ensure safety?

RISK: Rooms for IT use should be made or adapted for the special requirements and should have the following characteristics: Fire doors and appropriate fire protection, secure windows and doors, custom circuits, no water carrying pipes, and should not be used for other purposes.

Can you recieve notifications of the occurance of fires and take immediate action?

RISK: 60% of fires occur in electrical systems and equipment and develop slowly through smoldering fires. Thus, electrical distribution systems, UPS systems, HVAC systems and power supplies are all potential dangers for fires.

Question 3-4 ►

Will you be informed early in the event of room temperature increase? Do you know the exact climate of the room?

RISK: In case of failure of the air cooling system, overheating of the servers may occur. Within a few hours, this may result in a total failure of IT. Other critical threats during climate control failure are high humidity and water condensation.

Do you get water leaks from burst pipes or faulty air conditioning reported before damage occurs?

RISK: Ingress of water in server-rooms through flooding, defects in heating systems, air conditioners, etc. will lead to a total breakdown of IT.

Question 5-6 ►

Do you know in the event of a power failure how long it occurs, and whether your UPS is working properly again?

RISK: A power failure may cause unexpected problems in the UPS and can lead to a total failure of IT. Voltage flickers or fluctuations are often caused by industrial plants and can lead to UPS or power supply failures.

Have you taken precautions to prevent physical intrusions, and can you respond immediately?

RISK: Burglary or theft are the most obvious threats. It can also lead to logical access and attacks, in addition to physical theft of hardware. Open ports or accessible consoles provide critical points of attack.

Question 7-8 ►

Can you retrace at all times, who, when, and how long someone was in the room?

RISK: IT Rooms should be adequately protected against unauthorized access. All entrances should always be well documented. Very often, attacks on IT take place from inside the companies by the employees themselves.

Electronic devices can fail. Will you be instantly informed about failures of active components and network connections, any time, any day?

RISK: In the event of failures of active or passive components such as routers, switches, or PABX, you may encounter massive disruption of the IT infrastructure. Corporate failures of even a few hours will quickly incur high costs.

Question 9-10 ►

In the event of human error, will you or your staff be instantly informed at an early stage, and can these messages be transmitted independantly, for example, via SMS?

RISK: Incorrect operation, open windows, disregard of technical Instructions, or similar behavior regularly leads to expensive IT failures. A fast and redundant notification to multiple people in case of failure is important to avoid contributing to organizational error.

Can you at any time understand and reconstruct events (over several months) to avoid future mistakes?

RISK: QA and certification standards, like ISO27000, require the documentation and recording of normal and critical system states over months or years. Complete documentation may reduce liability risks.

Result ►

Your physical IT infrastructure
has following security level

RESULT: 0%

Congratulations, perfect security level. Currently, there is no need for action.

Already good secrutiy level, here should be analyzed to further improve the missing points.

Basic coverage, but with a high potential for improvement.

Inadequate security level against fundamental physical risks.

SAVE RESULT

Congratulations, perfect security level. Currently, there is no need for action.

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