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

[Mark Smith]

On 27 September 2016 at 19:07, chrismacko80 <chrismacko80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

Xenophobes aren't team players.


> 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.
>>
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