Biometrics at the door. Full control at the rack.
Electronic key management for data centres. Every rack, cage and plant room key released only to the right person, for the right job, and logged for your auditors.
Your perimeter is digital. Your racks still have keys.
Data centres invest heavily in turnstiles, mantraps and biometrics at the entrance. Inside, much of the estate still runs on mechanical locks: server racks, colocation cages, meet-me rooms, generator and UPS rooms, switchgear and fuel stores. Not following procedures is the leading cause of human-error outages, and most major outages now cost more than US$100,000.
The last metre of access control is a key. Make it as controlled as the front door.
Many hands, many racks, one set of keys.
Operations and facilities
Plant rooms, generators, UPS, cooling and fuel.
Remote hands and vendors
Technicians opening customer racks on request, plus OEM engineers and M&E contractors.
Colocation customers
Access to their own cage or rack, and nothing else.
Rack keys are often near-identical, easily mixed up and shared between shifts. What is at stake: unauthorised access to a customer's rack is a contract and reputation issue, frameworks such as PCI DSS expect physical access to be controlled and logged, and the wrong person in the wrong rack is how human-error outages start.
