Businesses, large and small, create data which needs protecting, whether in an onsite server room or co-located at a data centre. When a business imagines a corporate data breach, they’re probably picturing black-hat hackers pursued by cybercrime investigators. The reality is often more mundane. Only around a half of breaches involve hacking, according to one recent report. Gaps in the physical security, the business’ data and servers are equally important targets.
Perhaps the company director leaves their laptop on the train. Or an unauthorised visitor spots open server racks and quickly downloads records onto his smartphone. Or maybe the server room access control is left entirely to lock-and-key technology which cannot be easily tracked.
