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

[chrismacko80]

Funny stuff Bev, you still have a bit of comedian in you! :-D   Funny
video too, the days were a little more relaxing back then. There's
nothing preventing us from working together to develop a solution, if
we can fix the technology and gaps here in Australia using technology
we develop together. Does anyone categorically know if this affects
our financial markets? I assume so from what I've seen and heard, in
reality that'd be a really severe risk given the low number of data
centres they operate, to the overall economy and investors. You'd know
wouldn't you? I never ran a public company so think you'd be best to
comment.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Bevan Slattery <bevan at slattery.net.au> wrote:
> Maybe it's time to break out the Redundant Array of Inexpensive Doves with
> the tin foil hats?
>
> 10 years ago....  OMG Spot the Industry Legends ;)
>
> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhjn8kbFe74
>
> [b]
>
> On 27 Sep. 2016, at 7:07 pm, 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?
>
> 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.
>
>