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now
a sensor and teams were no-
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tified in seconds, allowing for a
much faster reaction time to high
secure situations.
A platform with fiber
integrat-
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ed within it, would have notified se-
curity immediately that someone
crossed their doorway in less than 5
seconds, allowing for containment of
". . .a prisoner jailed for carjacking the event quickly.
walked away from a work release
program and ended up in a Dela-
ware data center.” “He’d made his
way in through a broken door.”
Unfortunately we don’t hear a lot about
physical security breaches because
they are usually labelled differently,
but they are on the rise according to
one report, “But the number of secu-
“Even though nothing was stolen, rity breaches in the data center is al-
the event was serious enough to most 10 to 12 times more than what
raise the hackles of those in the is reported, according to Technavio's
Panda.
data center space.”
Adding a platform that is not only fiber optic and needs no power, but weight sensitive,
will create an additional defense to purposeful or accidental damage to a network, Sensi-
tive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), or other high secure location.
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