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What’s more precious than your IT infrastructure? Ok, maybe your family, your health and all that jazz. You don’t keep your money under a mattress, you keep it stashed away safely with the professionals at the bank. That’s kind of what FORTRUST does, only for IT infrastructure.
FORTRUST is a colocation data center. That basically means that companies can outsource their IT infrastructure to FORTRUST, and the company will take care of the heavy lifting for you.
FORTRUST has been incredibly successful at keeping their Denver data center up and running. In fact, the company boasts a 100 percent continuous critical systems uptime record since Sept. 12, 2001. That’s fourteen years, one month and three days without a major hiccup.
But as important as uptime is, what makes the data center really interesting is the levels of security put in place to protect all that IT infrastructure. It turns out that FORTRUST is something of a fortress. They keep at least three separate staff onsite at all times, and use a multi-layered security approach to control personnel access. That limits who can access different parts of the building and is the same approach used in sensitive government buildings.
To gain access to various areas of the center they use a dual factor authentication process, which includes card readers and biometric scanners. There are dual mantraps, multiple security identification points, a closed loop security camera system, and onsite security guards. Just for good measure, they also simultaneously monitor their security systems off site as well. And, that’s just the security measures they’ll publicly talk about.
Tom Cruise’s character from Mission Impossible would have trouble getting into this place.
Ok, so maybe your company isn’t dealing with anything that Ethan Hunt is going to be going after, but if you’re going to be trusting your company’s IT infrastructure to a third party, you could do a lot worse.
