InfoSec specialists and others responsible for data integrity and security have a myriad of security measures. From universal guidelines provided by the Service Organization Control (SOC) to proprietary systems, countless personnel hours and literally billions of dollars are invested in security.
Whether data centers deploy Tier I (basic data center security) or Tier IV (redundancy on all resources providing fault tolerance against downtime) policies, data is only as safe as the system’s weakest link. In many cases, that link is network monitoring equipment with non-removable storage.