Demand for data centres is growing at a remarkable rate. Data’s strategic importance, for both commercial and non-commercial organisations, makes physical security fundamental at these sites. In addition, national and regional regulations place ever more stringent requirements on in-house and co-location operators to take a secure approach to data management and protection.
Data’s sensitive nature also brings data centres within the scope of the EU’s NIS2 and Cyber Resilience Act1. Penalties may be severe for organisations which get data security wrong: the projected cost of an average data breach is 3.8m EUR, according to IBM’s 2025 annual report2. The penalty in terms of reputation and/or regulator fines could be even more.
