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Are data centers as secure as they want you to think?
Though security is often a selling-point for many data centers, they aren’t necessarily safe from theft. There have been plenty of incidents involving hardware theft from data centers.
A few examples:
- Multiple robberies at a Chicago data center
The Chicago-based colocation company CI Host had its data center broken into on October 2, 2007. The intruders passed through a reinforced wall with the help of a power saw, attacked the night manager with a tazer, and stole at least 20 servers. This particular data center had at that time been burglarized at least four times since 2005.- Fake police officers rob Verizon data center
A Verizon Business data center in northern London got $4 million worth of computer equipment stolen on December 6, 2007. The “heist” was done by between three to five men dressed as police officers. They managed to gain entry to the data center and tied up the five staff members before stealing the equipment....
Immagino che sarebbe molto più facile per qualcuno all'interno del data center rubare dati prelevando un disco RAID durante la manutenzione di routine. Oltre alla fiducia implicita di ospitare il tuo server lì, come ti proteggi da essere una vittima inconsapevole del furto di dati? La crittografia dell'intero disco funzionerebbe se fosse necessario fornire loro la password per l'esecuzione della manutenzione?