Data Center FAQ: Montreal, QC, CA
Q: Which laws and standards does the data center adhere to?
A:ISO 27001, ISO 27002, SOC2/SSAE 16, Payment Card Industry (PCI), and the EU Data Protection Directive.
Q: Does the data center have a formal information security charter, policies, standards, and/or guidelines?
A: Yes, and it is approved by senior management, communicated to employees, reviewed periodically, published in a central repository, and aligned with industry standards such as ISO 27001/2, NIST, ITIL & CoBIT.
Q: What types of measures are taken to ensure a secure, trusted workforce?
A: Background checks are conducted on all employees, consultants, temporary workers, and external providers. Employees are also required to sign non disclosure agreements, roles and responsibilities are all defined, and we provide ongoing information security and privacy awareness education for all new and existing employees. Disciplinary/termination processes and procedures also exist.
Q: Is the data center capable of quickly applying software patches for new security vulnerabilities?
A: Yes.
Q: Are information security standards such as CIS, NIST, and/or DoD STIG to harden every component of your IT infrastructure (operating systems, servers, firewalls, routers, hypervisors, etc)?
A: Yes.
Q: Are formal policies and procedures in place for provisioning/terminating the data center employee user accounts, role based access, password strength, and user access/permissions?
A: Yes.
Q: Is regular internal and external penetration testing, and vulnerability scanning on all external/internal applications conducted?
A: Yes.
Q: Does the data center use industry standards like ISO, OWASP, NIST, CMMI, and/or BSIMM to build in security for your Systems/Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)?
A: Yes, ISO and NIST.
Q: Does the data center have formal Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans that are regularly reviewed and tested?
A: Yes, however for internal and critical infrastructure only.
Q: Are physical security perimeters around the data center’s data centers (fences, walls, barriers, guards, gates, electronic surveillance, physical authentication mechanisms, reception desks and security patrols) implemented?
A: Yes, including exterior card access to the building, security guard, interior card access to the facility, card access to the data center, security, cameras, and 90 day digital video recorder.
Q: Are physical protections against damage from natural causes, disasters, and deliberate attacks anticipated, designed and have countermeasures applied such as fire detection/protection systems, UPS, backup generators, etc?
A: Yes, fire detection/protection, UPS, backup generator, and N+1 cooling systems are in place.
PeterGunn September 21, 2014 at 2:22 pm
Hi,
Why does a IP geoloction lookup for the Montreal Data Center (64.86.220.69) is showing a Costa-Rica location?
Thanks,
PeterGunn
James Davey September 22, 2014 at 6:55 am
Hi Peter,
Where are you seeing this? I have run several tests on that IP address, and it is consistently showing Montreal. The easiest way to confirm this is to simply run a traceroute to the IP, using the guide at http://kb.site5.com/networking/how-do-i-perform-a-traceroute/ You will see that it ends in Montreal, as it should.