The Security Consequences Of Greening It

The security consequences of greening IT Does being green make the CISOs job easier or harder?

27th November 2007

Targets of the environmental lobby

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Fundamentals of green IT

Facilities

Infrastructure

Usage Slide 3 of 21

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IT infrastructure used in 3 places

Data centres

Offices Field

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A 21st century data centre The Dalles, Oregon

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Why The Dalles

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Underutilised fibre optic backbone Low cost real estate Low cost labour Coolish climate The Columbia River

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The Columbia River?

 4th Largest in North America  Largest hydro-power producing river in North America  Cheap and clean electricity Slide 7 of 21

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Data centres for all

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Energy efficient buildings Thermal mapping Safe power supply Build your own? Or lease a facility

Internet Europe

The Bunker

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Zero carbon data centres

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The growing world of SaaS

And wannabes…

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Fundamentals of green IT

Facilities

Infrastructure

Usage Slide 11 of 21

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The kit within the data centre

 Kit renewal  Virtualisation  Usage patterns

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 Asset management  ITIL  Remote management

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IT beyond the data centre

The office is IT’s wild frontier

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Consolidating into the data centre  Branch office servers  Thin client computing  Web enabled applications

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 Reduction of network traffic  Security more integrated  Improved ability to comply

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Standards outside the data centre

 Remote power management  Standards for new procurement  Best practice Enabling use of IT in the field is key to achieving green objectives and security policy must support rather than inhibit this Slide 15 of 21

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Fundamentals of green IT

Facilities

Infrastructure

Usage Slide 16 of 21

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IT giving back to the business

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Collaboration Efficient business process Efficient supply chains Building management

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Home working Customer communications Supplier communications Partner communications

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Fundamentals of green IT

Facilities

Infrastructure

Usage Slide 19 of 21

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Consequences for IT security Security People

Content

Servers and end points

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Conclusions

Quocirca’s report Web-enabled applications and the internet is available free at www.quocirca.com

Thank you Bob Tarzey Quocirca www.quocirca.com

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