“If you don’t maintain physical security in the real world, any and all safeguards you erect in the virtual world may be meaningless.”
April 20th, 2008
by Scott Stone
That’s a compelling line from Ed Tittel’s article at SearchSecurity.com.
For Datacenter, server, and other sensitive information technology, it seems as if the security focus has sometimes missed the actual servers themselves. As Tittel says in the piece, “…just about any Windows NT, 2000 or XP laptop, booting this software (NT Locksmith) from a floppy permits a knowledgeable Windows person to take over the machine and reset the administrator password in 5-10 minutes.”
