Physical security in government agencies data centre

Abstract

Data centre is a central repository for the storage, management, and dissemination of data supporting one or multiple organizations. Many studies have been carried out to measure and quantified quality of physical security elements in data centres. Physical security should also be incorporated by identifying the risks with comparison to the value of the assets. It is based on the principle of defense-in-depth. In this study physical security observation and assessment of the completed data centre were done by visual observation in which photos were taken during the visual survey of all Data Centres. Questionnaire survey and face to face interviews were conducted by researcher. Analysis of the result showed that physical security implementation in data centre did not comply to the specifications prescribed by the security standard of data centre it could not prevent any intrusion and security threat. Result from observations and face to face interviews and questionnaire survey concluded that the government data centre did not follow the physical security procedure