[techtalk] Physical security example

[Samuel Tesla]

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    To add my bit to the pile on how systems must be physically secure...

At my office, our data center takes up approximately one fifth of the floor.
It's big.  It's got about $80 million worth of hardware in there.  All of our
production, test, and development servers are mounted in racks (and displayed
nicely behind a window...).  The only entrance to the datacenter is rather well
secured. 

To gain legitimate access one must have a badge that will work, *AND* pass the
palm-scan (gotta love biometrics).  If either of these tests hasn't been past
and the door is jimied open (or some such), an alarm goes off.  There are video
cameras monitoring the entrance.  I haven't had much of a tour of the rest of
the data center, since I'm a developer, but I believe they've got similar
security measures elsewhere behind the doors.  Hell, the've got the same getup
on the telco closet (where all the switches for the office are).

If you let people have physical access to your computer, you've already lost
the battle. 

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