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Data Security Going Underground
Wired News Report
1:00pm 14.Sep.98.PDT
One company serious about data security has bought an abandoned nuclear
bunker in southern England, where it is offering to store important
corporate data on secure servers 300 feet underground.
London-based A.L. Digital recently purchased a former military
communications facility. The bunker was built to withstand the electronic
magnetic pulse of a nuclear attack. The company claims the location is
also impervious to electronic eavesdropping.
"There are similar facilities outside of the UK," said Adam Laurie, A.L.
Digital's director, which bought the bunker from the British army. "But
with all the reports of industrial espionage, British companies are not
very comfortable with housing their data offshore."
The company is no stranger to security. It developed a security plug-in
for the open-source Apache server, which is the most widely used Web
server on the Internet. The Apache-SSL software lets companies add strong
(128-bit) encryption to Apache servers.
The center has been set up to cater to companies wanting to house their
most critical data in a safe environment. While there is a growing
awareness of securing data from Internet-based attacks, companies often
overlook basic physical security.
"In many cases all one has to do to get at corporate servers is sneak past
the front desk and break into a locked room," said Laurie.
Will individuals use the facility to store their data? Probably not,
according to Laurie. Pricing starts at US$20,000-25,000 per server.
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Received on Tue Sep 15 09:23:46 1998