Data centres are crucial to the digital world, storing sensitive information and supporting critical infrastructure, making their security essential. While cybersecurity is key, physical security measures like multi-factor authentication and biometrics are equally crucial to protect these facilities.

Data centres represent a unique end-user market with specific and distinctive security needs. As the heart of the digital world, data centres house vast amounts of sensitive information, including financial data, personal information, and valuable intellectual property. They also support critical infrastructure such as power grids, transportation systems, and healthcare. In short, a compromised data centre poses a significant threat to national security.

Protecting data centres involves implementing the most robust measures to prevent cyber attacks, but physical security is equally important. These buildings, containing rows of servers that collectively form the digital “cloud”, must be safeguarded against various physical threats. Measures such as multi-factor authentication and biometrics reflect the highest levels of security. Protection starts at the perimeter and extends to all internal structures and each individual server.

This Technology Report, developed by SecurityInformed.com in conjunction with Johnson Controls, focuses on how physical security systems, including access control, serve the demanding environment of data centres. The number of new data centres will continue to grow at a double-digit rate for the foreseeable future, making the need for effective physical security solutions even more vital.

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