Data center physical security is the practice of controlling, recording, and auditing every physical interaction with the facility that holds your equipment: who enters, what they touch, and the environmental conditions around your racks. At Amanah’s 151 Front data center, we unified all of it on one platform. Here is what changed.
- Amanah deployed Verkada across its 151 Front data center to unify access control, video, and environmental monitoring on one platform.
- Incident response dropped from 30–45 minutes to under five, and manual monitoring time fell by roughly 90%.
- Every access event is now logged with video for SOC 2 Type II audits.
Physical security is not a compliance checkbox. It is your customers’ confidence.
The Challenge: Fragmented Systems and Delayed Answers
Before we unified our infrastructure, answering a customer’s security question meant hours of manual work. Cross-reference access logs, search camera footage, manually match timestamps, wait for a system administrator to find the right clip. For a 24/7 facility, that friction cost time and customer confidence.
Environmental monitoring was equally disconnected. Temperature and humidity issues surfaced only after they escalated, sometimes after a customer’s workload had already been affected.
We needed one system that unified access, video, and environmental data so our team could answer questions instantly and catch problems before customers ever felt them.
The Solution: One Platform for Complete Data Center Physical Security
We deployed Verkada across 151 Front. Access control on all critical areas. Video on all entry points and the data center floor. Air quality sensors in every zone. One platform.
Incident response cut from 30–45 minutes to under five.
A customer question about access now takes one query. Pull the event, review the linked video, answer with confidence. One platform. One answer.
Environmental issues caught before they become outages.
Real-time air quality monitoring. Thresholds trigger alerts immediately. Our team catches problems mid-shift, not after a customer calls to report downtime.
SOC 2 audit logs that actually prove what happened.
Every entry logged with video evidence. For our SOC 2 Type II audit, we pull records directly from Verkada. For customer compliance inquiries, we have proof of exactly who accessed what, when, and what happened on video.
Operational flexibility without sacrifice.
Access, video, and alerts work from anywhere. Leadership doesn’t need to be onsite. Manual monitoring overhead dropped by approximately 90%.
The Results
| 5 min | Incident response time (down from 30–45 min) |
| 90% | Reduction in manual monitoring time |
| 100% | Audit-ready access logs with video |
| 24/7 | Environmental monitoring and alerts |
Why This Matters for Your Colocation
You don’t own the building. You own the equipment inside it. That means you’re trusting your colocation provider with something critical: proof that your infrastructure is physically secure, auditable, and protected by someone who takes security seriously.
At 151 Front, unified physical security is not a checkbox. It is how we operate every day. It is the reason we can answer “Who accessed my rack?” instantly. It is the reason we catch environmental issues before they become downtime. It is the reason your equipment is protected by infrastructure designed for data center reliability.
That is what professional colocation looks like.
Explore how we build this into our colocation at 151 Front, including private cage space for compliance-driven workloads, and read another colocation customer story.
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Verkada published a detailed case study about how we transformed security at 151 Front. Walk through the challenge, the deployment, and the impact. See exactly how we use access control, video, and environmental monitoring to protect your uptime.
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Questions about this topic
It is the practice of controlling, recording, and auditing every physical interaction with the facility that holds your equipment: who enters, what they touch, and the environmental conditions around your racks. At 151 Front, Amanah unifies access control, video, and environmental monitoring on one Verkada platform.
One query. The team pulls the access event and reviews the linked video, then answers with confidence. Since unifying on one platform, incident response dropped from 30–45 minutes to under five.
Air quality sensors sit in every zone with real-time monitoring. Thresholds trigger alerts immediately, so the team catches temperature, humidity, and air-quality issues mid-shift, before they become downtime.
Yes. Every entry is logged with video evidence. For its SOC 2 Type II audit, Amanah pulls records directly from Verkada, and for customer compliance inquiries it can show exactly who accessed what, when, and what happened on video.
Verkada, deployed across access control on all critical areas, video on all entry points and the data center floor, and air quality sensors in every zone, all managed on one platform.