By: Mike Nazzario

What is a Data Center?  Facility used to house computer servers for remote storage  Sensitive Data  Warehouse – room with a couple servers  Off-site backup

One of Google’s Data Center’s

IUP’s Data Center  Stright Hall and basement of Police Station  Physical protection double doors with dual pass codes  Doors only accessible at certain hours  Cameras for surveillance

Inside  Positively charged room for cooling  Raised floor with air ducts and cables  Rows of server racks  Vents in front and behind racks

In case of power failure  There are battery backups inside that keep the system online for 15 min  Outdoor generator takes 12 min to power up.  Takes over and powers whole network

Back-ups and in house work  Off site back up is located in the basement of the university police station  They keep backup tapes in the data center as well  All HDD wipes are done in the data center  3 wipe process

Updates and Repairs  Currently are updating the search server  They repair all hardware problems in house  Servers are accessed through terminals inside the data center

What is the reason for all this?  The main goal of a data center is to protect sensitive data.  Such as your banner ID that gives access to your payments to the university and contains all your personal info  Such as: name, address, SSN….

Software Security  Cisco is the number one for Data Center security solutions  Companies like IBM Microsoft McAfee and HP specialize in Data Center Security.  IUP uses Red Hat Linux as their platform of choice

Security  You must have physical security to protect the data  As well as methods to protect the servers in the data center  HDD maintenance

Physical Security  Common ways of physically protecting data are security guards  ID badges with magnetic key codes  Physical passwords  Even biometrics

HDD maintenance  Hard drives are kept track of with barcodes  HDD’s can be reused after wipes  Drives are crushed and destroyed as well

Works Cited    Ql4 Ql4  eral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns376/infonetics_ data_center_security.pdf eral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns376/infonetics_ data_center_security.pdf  s394/ns224/ns376/ s394/ns224/ns376/