[AusNOG] RISK - IT Industry - Concern Over Equipment Being, Installed in Data Centre Facilities - Further Replies

[chrismacko80]

Bob, what good is physical separation in separate data centres if the
same ability to wheel in damaging equipment by clients is present, not
to mention the number of newly arrived foreign nationals we employee
in our provisioning, support and technical employment sets in lots of
data centre businesses. Police checks can only do so much when it
comes to vetting a newly arrived employee from overseas.

As a side note, I visited a local CBA branch today, and saw a form in
the waiting area on a desk for filling in by employees when dealing
with suspected bomb packages. I asked the employee if I could take a
photo, she advised I couldn't as they weren't allowed to provide that
information to others. Had I just wanted to take a photo of my puppy
Moira I would have been able to grab a photo, it displayed the CBA and
BankWest logos. The banks take the threat seriously even for a single
branch, why don't we as business owners take responsibility and
collaborate together to fix the gap as an entire industry?

Who's a team player and willing to work on this together?

Chris.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Bob Purdon <bobp at purdon.id.au> wrote:
>> 2. Physical seperation? Your last DC's at NextDC were approximately
>> 1000m2 per suite, how do you call that physical separation?
>
> Err, I thought it was fairly obvious that Bevan meant physical separation as
> in half your gear in a facility in Melbourne, and half in Sydney, or half in
> a facility on one side of Melbourne and half in a facility on the other.  I
> don't think anyone here seriously considers two different data halls in the
> same facility to be "physically separate" in this context.
>