Originally Posted by jfish

even the cleaners need to have due diligence done if they have access to the office where the server room is, that how strict it can be,

Security cleared cleaners mobile phones, laptops, camera or recording devices not allowed on site...been there. Try sitting in a 10x10 steel cage and having to shout to get it unlocked so you can go the toilet lol

Originally Posted by jfish

I assume they have some idps system in place as it has to be pci compliant, that is my area of expertise, PCI DSS complaincy, and with these banks, they are very strict on PCI and we do have a audit every 6 months so cant slip up when it comes to PCI DSS or else we can lost millions and millions of pound worth of contract.

You'd freak if i showed you what we do...... how ever we have a small risk factor touch wood (so we only get fined a small amount from the bank that we quite happily pay every month rather than up the antics on PCI, the bank would probably pull the plug on us in an instant..) it has been a while since we last had an audit on it.....but it's just a matter of time......

Originally Posted by Exos

Try sitting in a 10x10 steel cage and having to shout to get it unlocked so you can go the toilet lol

You work in a Faraday cage testing kettle plugs? i KNEW IT!!!! LOL...

Originally Posted by Dibbers

You work in a Faraday cage testing kettle plugs? i KNEW IT!!!! LOL...

The "Data Center" housed other servers and the ones specific to the contract i was working on couldn't physically be within distance/reach of others or provide someone the ability to bridge connections or copy data between server farms.

Our DR site needed to be at least 20+ miles away also.

so not a usb stick in site then?

Originally Posted by Dibbers

You'd freak if i showed you what we do...... how ever we have a small risk factor touch wood (so we only get fined a small amount from the bank that we quite happily pay every month rather than up the antics on PCI, the bank would probably pull the plug on us in an instant..) it has been a while since we last had an audit on it.....but it's just a matter of time......

depends who the bank is, I have three banks as clients, Barclays, HSBC and GE Money and they all come in every six months and I have to sit thru a CIA type interrogation with them, answering various questions.

Originally Posted by Dibbers

so not a usb stick in site then?

Not unless you want your Criminal activities (or lack thereof) published

The joys of sysadmins lol.

I would consider secure backups offsite ??? If tape drives... Drive you mad lol (sorry lol)

I agree about cloud security too, so many files being in so many places at once lol...

But it's edge technology to have things on quick nodes.

So we have signed the deal and were going with the 32k Option, gets me why we have to have a "tape drive" though at a cost of £2100.00 and also "ML350 GEN8 REDUNDANT FAN" £160.00. !!!

The cleaning tape for it is £945.00!

7.5k for implementation! we haven't got any money!

HP Hot Plug Redundant Fan Kit - Redundant fan options - HP: 659486-B21

Hmm...thanks.

Can't get my head around why were spending £3155.00 on tape/backup?

3 new laptops for people that still write on post it notes and this one just to top it off and do my nut, an I5 for some one that can't even add dairy requests to outlook! not even here half the time!

I give up!