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Datacentres are the "crown jewels" in IT assets for many small and large organisations alike; expensive equipment, sensitive and business critical data storage and day to day operational dependency are all by virtue of the modern datacentre. Concentrating items of such high value in a confined space increases the vulnerability to physical threats such theft, malicious attacks and even terrorist activity. Here at Krystal, we are extremely conscious of security and that's why we chose a datacentre that matched our values. In this post I'm going to briefly talk about our datacentres in terms of physical security and how you are protected when you host with us.

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    Fri, 10/30/2009 - 01:03 — paul

    "Last October, a datacentre in Chicago owned by Web hosting and collocation vendor C I Host was robbed by two masked men, who pistol-whipped a lone IT staffer working the graveyard shift and then held him hostage for two hours while stealing computer equipment."

    As the value and reliance on data and IT services increases, so does the vulnerability to physical and virtual attacks. The paragraph above was quoted from techworld.com underlining a very stark fact: Data centre attacks are on the rise, and they are taken seriously. The offenders were armed with guns and walked away with many servers full of client data.

    Nowadays, the majority (read: not all) of datacentres are well hidden and secure enough to not be an ideal target for robbers. However most datacentres haven't considered the likes of a terrorist threat. If someone is committed to bombing a target, and is willing to die to do so, it's incredibly difficult to stop them. As the terrorist threat becomes ever more prevalent, and the value and dependency on IT and data continues to grow, are we going to see an increase in terrorist attacks on data instead of people? This certainly isn't beyond the realms of possibility.

    We chose our datacentre with all these thoughts in mind. We wanted somewhere outside of London, incredibly secure and in a heavily protected environment. As a result, our clients and their data are now protected with:

    * ex MOD nuclear bunker 30M underground
    * 3.5m high perimeter fence
    * 3m thick walls
    * Solid steel doors
    * MOD trained guard dogs
    * CCTV
    * Military Electro Magnetic Pulse Protection
    * Tempest RFI intrusion protection
    * 24 hour sentry
    * Sophisticated access controls
    * No unescorted access

    By writing this post I'm not trying to scaremonger or speculate in any way that datacentres around the world are going to be under heavy attack at any point in the future but we have made allowances for the possibility.

    You'll be pleased to know that all our customers, from the cheapest plan up to the high end dedicated server and server solutions all benefit from this same level of security.

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