Tag: data centre governance
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Supplier auditing for UK data centres — securing contracts, governance and customer confidence
- by Anthony Orjally
- Advent IM Blog
Data centres are only as resilient as the ecosystem that supports them. Behind the racks and cooling systems sits a long supply chain: managed service providers, contractors, software vendors, facilities engineers, and sub-contractors. Each one is a potential weak point. For customers, the question is simple: how do I know my provider’s suppliers are not […]
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Red teaming the walls: physical security testing for UK data centres — governance, resilience and commercial edge
- by Anthony Orjally
- Advent IM Blog
Data centres are more than racks and power circuits; they are socio-technical hubs where people, plant and policy must all work together. That’s why physical security red teaming — an authorised, realistic simulation of attacks on buildings, personnel and procedures — is one of the most efficient ways to turn security controls into boardroom confidence […]
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Third-party breaches and the data-centre supply chain: where liability really lives
- by Anthony Orjally
- Advent IM Blog
It’s not the bullet you hear that gets you—it’s the ricochet from someone else’s range. The last two years turned “indirect breach” into the main show: MOVEit’s zero-day turned a file-transfer utility into an exfiltration engine; Snowflake-linked compromises hinged on reused credentials and weak contractor security; Okta’s support-portal compromise became a lesson in token hygiene […]
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