Physical Security
Two part question... How important is video surveillance when it comes to physical security of your data? How important is that same video to everything else (tech and non-tech) within your premise? For context, I am looking at this from a risk assessment, cyber liability insurance, and/or business continuity perspective.
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Alan, I am in agreement with you. When I said for data, I meant something along the lines of a camera in the data center entrance. I see video as more of a reactive tool. Yes it’s there, probably not monitored, and not much of a deterrent. However, should there be an incident, it can at least be reviewed. I am trying to research/find evidence to support this expense.
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Video surveillance of the physical data storage drives would be relatively rare - I have only seen it in upper end facilities and co-location scenarios (very different scenario there of course).
However, in general, video surveillance is pretty important from a deterrent and also evidence perspective, but let's be clear - it does not actually stop anyone doing anything (unless you count monitoring and a physical response to something seen by that monitoring).
I would always like to have video surveillance on the premises (both outside and inside) if at all possible, and have it running 24/7 not just out of hours.
Does that help?
Alan.