Behind those walls sit the servers handling your business. Whether hosting sensitive financial records, storing years of business data or powering global cloud platforms, they’re mission-critical, and increasingly vulnerable. However, while everyone's obsessing over firewalls and encryption, the physical security often gets overlooked.
While most security strategies focus on cyber threats, physical data center perimeter security is just as critical.
A cut and damaged cable or someone hopping your fence can shut you down just as fast as any cyber-attack. 'Traditional' security setups miss too much. Cameras have blind spots, motion sensors cry wolf constantly, and by the time you spot trouble, it's often too late. That’s where Aura Ai-X comes in.
Powered by deep learning, Aura Ai-X uses advanced fiber optic DAS sensing to deliver complete physical threat detection across data center environments from the outer fence to the buried cable cores.
Unlike traditional systems that rely on CCTV or motion detectors (often plagued by nuisance alarms), Aura Ai-X turns the entire perimeter and infrastructure into a listening device. Think of it like giving your facility a nervous system. Every vibration, tap, or disturbance is detected in real time, with location-specific alerts that allow for immediate response.
Here’s how Aura Ai-X enhances data center perimeter security from the outside in:
Whether your fence line is 50 meters or 50 kilometers, Aura Ai-X detects unauthorized access attempts with the industry’s highest probability of detection and lowest nuisance alarm rates. It works in harsh environments and keeps false alarms, and nuisance alarms to near zero.
Aura Ai-X detects disturbances to underground infrastructure like data and power cables. This includes early-stage damage, degradation, or sabotage - enabling teams to act before downtime becomes inevitable.
Covert attempts to tap into interconnect cables are difficult to detect with traditional methods. Aura Ai-X can sense these minute disturbances, alerting operators before any breach of sensitive information occurs.
Aura Ai-X is built for seamless integration with existing physical and network security infrastructure - from access control to CCTV to NMS platforms. With minimal hardware requirements and deep learning-powered analytics, it reduces complexity while enhancing situational awareness.
When it comes to data centers, uptime is everything. A single undetected cable tap or successful perimeter breach can have cascading and severe impacts. It can mean customer data at risk, SLA violations, service disruption, financial loss and reputational damage that takes years to repair. Aura Ai-X helps prevent that, with smart, scalable technology designed to secure what matters most.
Book a consultation with our experts to explore how FFT can deliver end-to-end physical protection for your specific facility.