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Story: Burglars plunder Verizon's London data centre

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How secure are data centres?

Yes, the robbery does pose many questions about data centre security. Whenever I've visited a data centre, it's been darn difficult to get in - and I've usually been accompanied by a senior exec from the data centre provider. I can't help imagine, though, that some of this security, whenever I've been there, is just for show. Data centre providers _love_ to hype the security of their buildings. But these robberies only go to show that the reality is different. Welshtroll, I think you're right in saying that it's usually ID theft or fraud that is the reason for these security breaches. It could be argued that it's down to data centre staff to check identification and adopt security procedures properly. But with the number of staff going in and out of datacentres 24 hours a day, this can be really difficult. Let's hope there's not too many more incidents like this.

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