Your Security Questions Answered

Why should I be concerned about security at the physical layer?

Eliminating the need for physical access to the infrastructure to make equipment additions, moves or changes significantly reduces the possibility of both malicious and unintentional security breaches. With a virtual infrastructure switch, the administrator can control user access and roles on an individual basis. Departments can also be assigned groups of ports, constituted by an access control list.

Mis-plugged cables are not only a security threat but often require significant troubleshooting time to resolve. A virtual infrastructure layer minimizes physical access to IT equipment thus helping to create a centrally managed, "hands off," ultra-secure environment.

How does the Universal Connectivity System provide physical layer security?

The UCS™ 2900 and 3900 platforms and HorizON™ Software supports IT security initiatives in a number of ways. First, the HorizON remote connectivity management system ensures that critical equipment - including servers, storage, networking, and test equipment, as well as the UCS 2900 or 3900 itself - can be physically located in a locked, secure area. All monitoring, testing, and reconfiguring of the infrastructure is done remotely to reduce the need for access to the secure area-lowering the possibility of unintentional and inadvertent actions that could result in a security violation. Additionally, HorizON provides robust, role-based access controls to ensure proper management authorization. And finally, by ensuring each circuit has a unique path through the switch, the UCS family eliminates any possibility of cross talk, which provided a secure infrastructure for connectivity management.

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