If you have a data center, protection should be your top priority. A lot can go wrong in your data center, from power outages to physical or digital security breaches. It’s up to you to protect your data center from harm. Bad actors can breach your company’s firewalls using a mix of black hat hacking and social engineering. Alternatively, you might have an employee get a hold of credentials above their security clearance and wreak havoc on your data center. Protecting your assets is up to you, so check out our data center security best practices below.
Data center security must continue to evolve because threats never stop. You need to implement both digital and physical measures to keep your data center on the up and up. One of the more common ways to do so is to implement security cameras throughout your data center while having a control room in a place where security can monitor the premises. Another best practice for your data center that will protect your assets is biometric identification, such as fingerprint identification, facial recognition, or voice activation. It will be expensive, but you should spare no expense when protecting your data center. Finally, we recommend placing security guards right outside your data center.
Physical assets aren’t the only thing you need to protect. Some people use methods like social engineering to access sensitive information. This is when a person will text, call, or email your employees and manipulate them into thinking they’re a person of authority or trick them into clicking a link that can lead to a virus or allow them to steal customer information. To guard against social engineering, train your employees to know what information they can share and what they can’t, and make sure they know that leadership will never ask them for sensitive information via email. Additionally, to determine potential vulnerabilities, get your IT specialists to perform penetration testing so they can determine where your security is weakest.
Downtime and data theft will cause a rift in your customer relationships. There’s nothing worse than having to put out an email to your clients that their data might have been breached. It causes them to lose trust in you. Why would they continue to work with you if you can’t keep their personal information safe? Would you trust a company like that? We’re sure you won’t, so you need to do everything in your power to ensure this doesn’t become a problem. If you follow the security measures outlined above, your data center will be a much more secure place.
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