Azure’s Layered Approach to Physical Security

Source - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-layered-approach-to-physical-security/

Physical security refers to how Microsoft designs, builds and operates datacenters in a way that strictly controls physical access to the areas where customer data is stored. Our datacenters are certified to comply with the most comprehensive portfolio of internationally-recognized standards and certifications of any cloud service provider. We have an entire division at Microsoft devoted to designing, building and operating the physical facilities supporting Azure. This team is invested in maintaining state-of-the-art physical security.

We take a layered approach to physical security. Datacenters managed by Microsoft have extensive layers of protection: access approval, at the facility’s perimeter, at the building’s perimeter, inside the building, and on the datacenter floor. This layered approach reduces the risk of unauthorized users gaining physical access to data and the datacenter resources.

The first layer of physical security starts with requesting access prior to arriving at the datacenter. You must provide a valid business justification for your visit, such as compliance or auditing purposes. All requests are approved on a need-to-access basis by Microsoft employees. This is to help keep the number of individuals needed to complete a task in our datacenters to the bare minimum. Once permissions are granted, an individual only has access to the discrete area of the datacenter based on the approved business justification. Permissions are limited to a certain period of time and expire after the allowed time period.

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