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I've worked at this food distribution warehouse for 28 years. We've never had a breakin until 9 mos ago and now we've had a 2nd, just this past weekend. As a result, we are looking at various ways to make the building more physically secure. A very important part of this is physical access to the computer room, which also happens to be where we keep the safe. The safe is burglar proof and weighs almost a ton. If there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that no money will be stolen out of this office. <g> Three of the 4 walls to the computer room are outside walls and therefore concrete block. The 4th side is the wall between the computer room and my office. There is a single small window from one outside wall into the computer room, covered with bulletproof glass. The purpose for having this window no longer exists, so it could be closed with concrete blocks. The A/C is installed in this same outside wall and wired to the burglar alarm. Currently we have a solid wood door access to the computer room, also wired to the burglar alarm. We could also deadbolt this door. My biggest concern is when a potential burglar can't get any money, he/she will turn around, see the iSeries and bash the crap out of it. If our iSeries is down, we're out of business until it's up. Disaster recovery comes into play here, which upper management has never seen fit to spend the money for, but they may be more receptive now. Questions: 1. What is available as far as "impregnable doors"? I'm trying to block access to the computer room. 2. A burglar could conceivably shove out the A/C into the computer room and gain access. Even though this would set off the burglar alarm, damage could be done in less than a minute. What is available to keep these units in the wall? 3. How have your experiences been with IBM and/or Sungard in disaster recovery? Thanks. PS. On a lighter note: They cut the phone lines outside in an attempt to prevent the burglar alarm from going off (which didn't work because we have cellular backup on the burglar alarm). But that did mean we had to call Verizon for repair. Using some 'secret' numbers we got repair stuff started Sunday night. It took 3 different Verizon guys to do different repairs outside (read "union'). When they were finished, the PBX phone system still didn't work, except internally only. They said it had to be an inside problem, requiring another guy. The inside guy came in this morning to all kinds of alarms on the system, but could find no problems inside. He went outside and found the problem. It seems that when the outside guys finished all the splicing and whatnot, they forgot to plug the jack back in. Sheesh. -- Jeff Crosby Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc. P.O. Box 13369 Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369 260-422-7531 The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my company. Unless I say so.
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