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This model is increasingly strained. In multi-tenant colocation facilities, multiple customers’ systems share common infrastructure, but internal network traffic often remains broadly trusted once inside the environment. Remote hands and third-party operators routinely access racks for maintenance, yet logical trust policies rarely tie those entry events to workload-level permissions. At the same time, legacy hardware, bare-metal servers, and containerized workloads coexist, each with very different trust surfaces.
Organizationally, separation of responsibilities amplifies these gaps. Facilities teams focus on uptime and access control, network teams on connectivity, and security teams on threat detection and policy enforcement. These domains are often siloed, with physical security and logical trust engineered independently rather than as integrated controls.
What emerges is a landscape where physical security is robust and intentional, but logical trust is inherited, not continuously verified, a condition at odds with modern, dynamic data center operations. DCPulse