ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
Your company, a SaaS provider subject to PCI DSS, plans to add a second data center to support disaster recovery with a recovery time objective of four hours. The executive team is comparing leasing space in a carrier-neutral colocation facility versus purchasing land and building a new private data center from the ground up. Which argument best supports choosing the colocation option from a physical design and security perspective?
Colocation shifts all ongoing operational expenses to the landlord so the company incurs virtually no recurring costs after installation.
Leasing guarantees exclusive use of the entire building, eliminating any possibility of tenant cross-contamination.
Building a private site offers direct control of physical safeguards, removing dependence on shared infrastructure maintained by a third party.
The facility already provides multi-layer physical security and industry certifications, allowing the company to meet compliance and availability goals quickly while avoiding large capital expense.
A carrier-neutral colocation provider has already invested in layered physical security (badging, mantraps, CCTV, guards), redundant power and cooling, and has commonly obtained third-party attestations such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, or ISO 27001. Leasing space lets the organization inherit these mature protections immediately and avoid major capital outlay, so the DR site can be certified and operational within the four-hour RTO window. By contrast, sole-occupancy of the entire building and complete control over every safeguard are attributes of a purpose-built facility, while the belief that colocation eliminates operating expenses is incorrect because clients still pay for power, cross-connects, and ongoing rent.
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